Why is it unhealthy to have a beer for breakfast?

There’s nothing particularly worse about having a beer at that time of day, other than the possible impact it might have on your ability to do things like drive to work safely.

However, if a beer is *all* you’re having for breakfast, this is bad for several reasons.

Firstly, beer has very little food value, so it’s almost like you’re skipping breakfast altogether. And skipping breakfast is a bad idea. Breakfast gives you energy for the rest of the day, and skipping it has more impact on your functioning than skipping any other meal. In addition, if you’re concerned about your weight, skipping breakfast puts your body into an energy-conserving mode, as well as making you more likely to snack on unhealthy foods later on. (If you want to skip a meal, the safest one to skip is supper.)

Secondly, drinking beer on a empty stomach gets you drunker from the same amount of beer than if you drank beer with a meal. One beer is not likely to be that big a deal (unless you’re a learning driver or otherwise doing something that you’re required to be 100% sober for) but if you drank several beers, you’ll find your tolerance is considerably lower if you don’t eat something along with them.

Thirdly, alcohol is digested by your body as a weird form of sugar. As such, it can have some similar effects to regular sugar. For one thing, beer is fattening. More importantly, having something sugary without also eating something with protein or complex carbohydrates will cause your blood sugar to rise rapidly. In reaction, your body will produce a large amount of insulin to process this sugar. It’s possible for your body to overreact and produce too much insulin, in which case your blood sugar will crash and you’ll start feeling shaky, hungry and dizzy a few hours after you last ate. In addition, over the long term, this process can make your cells start to resist insulin, which results in type 2 diabetes.

Source(s): Family history of diabetes

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