Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Avoiding Sleepy, Breakfast with Egg White



  If you often sleepy before lunch, maybe you eat the wrong breakfast. replace breakfast with poached eggs, especially egg whites. Egg white protein helps you stay awake.

Scientists have found that egg proteins, especially those found in egg white, can help people stay awake, so it is not easy sleepy while working.

Proteins in egg white is more effective than carbohydrates in chocolate, biscuits or sweets that are often used to increase the energy quickly.

Cambridge University researchers studying how nutrition affects the brain cells that make people stay awake and help burn calories.

A mixture that is similar to egg white protein activates the brain cells, thereby triggering the release of orexin stimulant. While sugar actually blocking orexin, so that eating sugar will make people sleepy.

Orexin hormone is a hormone produced in the brain. Orexin hormone deficiency often found in patients narcolepsia, excessive drowsiness during the day which sometimes trigger uncontrollable sleep attacks. orexin hormone will reduce drowsiness and keep people awake.

"What's interesting is how a rational way to 'tune' the brain cells become more or less active in deciding what food to be eaten. Research shows that if you have a choice between butter on white toast or egg on toast, then the choose the second one (white eggs on toast), "explained Dr. Denis Burdakov, researchers from Cambridge University, as reported by Dailymail, Friday (11/18/2011).

Even though both of these options contain the same number of calories, egg white has more protein will tell your body to burn more calories than consumed.

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