Morning Meals to Motivate & Power Your Day

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The No Meat Athlete Cookbook: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts... And the Rest of your Life

Published 2021

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In his book The Blue Zones, author and researcher Dan Buettner takes a look at the pockets of societies around the world that produce the largest number of centenarians (people who are 100 years old or older) per capita. The results are not only fascinating, but they affirm the benefits of a plant-based diet—and they have more than a few things to say about the way we should eat breakfast.

You know that old “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” maxim that new-school diets have taken pride in ignoring? Well, it’s back. The longest-lived people on earth typically eat very large breakfasts, medium-size lunches, and relatively small dinners. Of course, this all falls apart if your breakfast is loaded with added sugar and other processed carbohydrates, so you’ll note that our breakfasts are big on flavor and portion size but short on sugar and refined grains.