Busy modern man, did you save your nutrition this morning?
Sep 17, 2025
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If there is no special appointment, they eat home-cooked meals, but since they skipped breakfast and ate less lunch, they often eat compensated meals with meat or soup. As such, A's diet is common among modern office workers.
According to the results of the National Health and Nutrition Survey by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the breakfast skipping rate has increased from 23.9 percent in 2013 to 34.6 percent in 2023. Vegetable intake decreased from 282.2 g to 232.5 g and fruit intake from 169.1 g to 116.3 g during the same period. On the other hand, meat intake increased from 104.4g to 129.0g and beverage intake increased from 168.6g to 274.6g.
This is closely related to the imbalance of eating habits and the increased risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Health is not completed in a short period of time. It is important to fill up the meals you eat every day as if you are saving nutrients.
Breakfast supplements decreased glucose during sleep to maintain cognitive function and reduces fasting time to prevent binge eating and postprandial blood sugar surges. In addition, it helps prevent obesity and insulin resistance by controlling the body's biorhythm and energy metabolism, so it is desirable to eat breakfast even in simple forms such as eggs, nuts, bananas, wholegrain cereals, and soy milk.
If you focus on preference or taste when choosing a meal, calories, sodium, and saturated fat are high, and micronutrients such as dietary fiber, calcium, and vitamins are likely to be insufficient. In particular, substituting for protein drinks and vitamin drinks may temporarily give you a feeling of fullness, but may be nutritionally insufficient.
The three major nutrients of carbohydrate, protein, and fat should be balanced, and quality meals based on natural foods containing micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals should be selected. For example, it is a meal that includes vegetables and fruits along with multigrain rice (composite carbohydrates), fish (quality protein), and nuts (healthy fat).
Kim Yoon-mi (family medicine specialist) at Daedong Hospital's General Health Examination Center emphasized, "I skip a meal or two due to my recent busy daily life or weight loss, and often replace it with alternative foods." "However, the basis of health is three meals a day, a balanced diet tailored to an individual's calorie and health status at regular times."
"Health functional foods and vitamin drinks are only supplementary means, and if consumed mainly with certain ingredients, it can lead to nutritional imbalance, and in terms of balance between nutrients and absorption rate in the body, eating mainly with natural foods is desirable."Health is not created overnight, so it is important to steadily fill up nutrients as if saving nutrients through quality meals every day," he said.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
