How did breakfast start?
It is advisable to start the day with a healthy breakfast. Health experts recommend eating 3 meals a day i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner. However, this was not always the case. Earlier people used to eat food only once a day. There is a saying that the more food and sleep are increased, the more it becomes. Earlier, when there was a shortage of food and food items in the entire world, people used to eat food only at one time. It has also been revealed in many researches that after seeing food or its picture, you start feeling like eating. That is, if you are kept away from food, then we avoid eating more often. Let us know when and how breakfast started?
Professor David Levitsky of Cornell University College of Human Ecology, New York, says that if you eat food only once a day, then the body remains as healthy as eating 3 times. Food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins also believes that eating once a day is enough for the human body.
When and how did breakfast start?
It is believed that breakfast was started by the ancient Greeks. The people of Greece used to eat bread soaked in wine in the morning, then they used to eat food in the afternoon and then also in the evening or night. In the beginning, breakfast used to be a matter of the elite class. The trend of breakfast started in the 17th century. Breakfast started being considered a luxury and one could enjoy eating it comfortably after waking up in the morning.
What did the first people eat for breakfast?
After this, the concept of breakfast started spreading rapidly during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. People started eating some food before going to work. In this way the trend of eating 3 times a day started. Breakfast used to be a very simple meal for the working classes, in which people used to eat street food or roti. However, when food became scarce during the war, many people eliminated the breakfast option. The thought of eating three times a day started disappearing from people’s minds. In the 1950s, people started eating cereals and toast as breakfast.
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