A Brief History Of How Breakfast Got Its ‘Healthy’ Rep

16So much of what we think we know about breakfast boils down to the age-old assumption that it’s the most important meal of the day. But chances are, the origins of the phraseof dare we say breakfast’s entire reputationcome from a surprising place.

In many ways, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it is the meal that gets the day started,” Lenna F. Cooper, B.S., writes in a 1917 issue of Good Health, the self-proclaimedoldest health magazine in the worldedited by none other than Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the co-inventor of flaked cereal. “It should not be eaten hurriedly, and all the family, so far as possible, should partake of it together. And above all, it should be made up of easily digested foods, and balanced in such a way that the various food elements are present in the right proportions. It should not be a heavy meal, consisting of over five to seven hundred calories,” Cooper’s article continues. See original post

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