What are common breakfast mistakes?

One common breakfast mistake: eating nothing but fruit. Sports medicine and nutrition specialist Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM reveals other morning meal missteps.

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Some common breakfast mistakes begin with eating one-- only one type of food.

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So for instance, let's say you grab just a bagel. That's like eating four pieces of bread.

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But there's no other nutrients. So there's nothing to balance that out with, like having some protein or healthy fat or fruits, milk, dairy.

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Or eating, let's say, just a big old bowl of fruit, which may seem healthy, but it's actually not that balanced. So by the time you're done eating a really big bowl

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of fruit, you will have had a lot of carbohydrate that's not balanced with anything like protein or healthy fat.

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So a much better breakfast is to think about balancing it with some kind of whole grain, some kind of protein,

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and/or dairy, and then having some fruit, so whether you're having a breakfast sandwich that

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might be an English muffin with an egg on it and a piece of fruit or some juice,

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or having a breakfast burrito, or having a waffle with some cottage cheese

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and fresh fruit or a yogurt parfait, or having some salmon, like lox, with a half of bagel

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and some fresh fruit. Those are all different kinds of combinations that actually are much better than having just one of any one of those items.