Healthy Breakfast For A Healthy Life

How many times have you heard the adage "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? This isn't just a saying, eating a healthy breakfast really does do wonders for your body, including for your energy level and the speed of your metabolism over the course of the day. Studies have even found that you will burn more calories working out after a healthy breakfast than you will burn before you eat, or if your breakfast is not adequate.

Too many people believe that skipping breakfast will somehow help them. Avoiding excess calories is an important part of staying healthy, but breakfast is unfortunately a little too important to simply pass up. You will find that if you begin to eat hearty, healthy breakfasts every morning, your body will not fatigue as easily, you will perform better at work, and you will feel better at the gym afterward. If eating a health breakfast can do so much for the body, why on earth would you pass it up?

There are many ways to put together a quick but healthy breakfast, and many healthy breakfast options are portable. A fresh fruit smoothie is a stellar choice if you have a blender. You can combine your favorite fruits and vegetables with a little bit of milk, to get a great boost of vitamins, minerals and calcium before your day begins. If you do not have a blender, but want to enjoy milk and fruit in the morning, try a bowl of a cereal which is high in fiber and low in sugar, and add some nonfat milk and fresh fruit to the top. If you have a little bit more time to prepare breakfast in the morning, try one of these great recipes, which combine a healthy cereal with yogurt, fresh fruit and even some protein-packed nuts.

Muesli Tropical Cereal - This recipe serves between two and four people, and only takes around ten minutes of preparation time.
* Muesli - Around 4 ounces.
* Wheat Flake Cereal - Around 2 ounces.
* Apple - 1 whole apple both peeled and grated.
* Yogurt - Around 16-20 ounces, opt for low fat yogurt, or skim yogurt.
* Mango - 1 whole mango peeled and cut into slices or strips.
* Passion Fruit - The pulp only from 2 whole passion fruits.
* Almonds - 1 ½ flaked and toasted almonds.

Mix the muesli, wheat cereal, grated apple and around 10 ounces of the yogurt in a bowl. This part should be refrigerated overnight. In the following morning, you can divide this mixture up into four bowls, then top each one with the remaining 10 ounces of yogurt, the rest of the fruit and the almond flakes. Now it's ready to serve!

The Terrific Mango -- This recipe is nice and sweet, taking advantage of all of the health benefits of fruit with a little bit of honey. This recipe makes two services, and has about a ten minute preparation time.
* Mango - 1 whole mango both peeled and chopped.
* Pineapple - ½-1 whole pineapple, chopped.
* Papaya - 1 whole papaya both peeled and chopped.
* Kiwi - 2 whole kiwi fruits chopped.
* Tropical Fruit Juice - Any variety, at least 5 ounces.
* Honey - 2 tablespoons.

This is a quick and easy way to begin your day. Once all of your fruits are peeled and chopped, all you need to do is mix them together and add the juice and honey to the top.