NORTHERN PLANNER

This story from the New Scientist (gist only I’m afraid, they charge for the whole thing) turns the received wisdom about the importance of breakfast on its head.

‘Eat a good breakfast it’s the most important meal of the day’, they say. Well sometimes it’s worse than going hungry, at least for mental performance. While a low GI breakfast works to help boost memory performance, its not so good for tasks that require a very quick reaction, so if you want to return a tennis serve, or win a game of snap, it may be better to do without.

Makes sense really, you can imagine evolution making hungry animals more alert so they can catch dinner……..

And if your stressed, be careful, breakfast may make you feel worse!

I wonder what Tony the Tiger would say.