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the daily negotiation between your alarm and your appetite, usually won by neither
means The part of the morning set aside for eating breakfast, the first meal of the day.
from A plain compound of "breakfast" plus "time." The real treasure is "breakfast" itself: literally to break one's fast, the overnight stretch of not eating. The word "fast" here is the same Old English fæsten meaning abstinence from food, a cousin of the religious fast — so every morning you are, quite literally, breaking a small private fast that began the night before.
- word origin
- breakfast literally means breaking the night's fast
- skipping it
- intermittent fasting rebranded skipping breakfast as wellness
- cereal scheme
- 19th-century health gurus pushed it to curb desire
- cortisol peak
- your hunger hormone spikes naturally around 8am
- global swing
- some cultures eat soup, fish, or nothing at all
continental breakfast — hotel industry standard since early 1900s europe: pastries, coffee, juice
english breakfast — traditional meal in uk: bacon, eggs, baked beans, mushrooms, tomatoes
breakfast club — 1985 john hughes film about five students in saturday detention