Meals in the morning, lunch and dinner

Most people in the world take as common and indisputable the fact that one needs to eat three times a day. But it has not always been so. In fact, this is just a recent practice. Today in the developed world there are fewer and fewer people gathering for dinner with family and this is also a style change and not very important.

But for government experts, it is morning that is being overlooked by many, the problem that really deserves attention and should bother us. Breakfast makes people more attentive and improves the outcome of children at school.

But if people do not have the problem of getting away from the practice of three meals, is this a great break with the tradition?

Breakfast

Breakfast, as a separate meal, did not exist for most of the history of mankind. The Romans did not have this practice. They generally succumbed to just one meal a day, around noon, says food historian Caroline Yeldham.

"The Romans believed it was healthier to eat only one meal a day," she says. "They were fixed with digestion and if you were eating more than once a day, it was considered excessive. This kind of thought influenced how people were fed for long.

In the Middle Ages, life in the monasteries also shaped the way men were fed, says historian Ivan Day. Nothing could be eaten before morning prayers and meat could only be consumed during half a day of a year. It is believed that the word morning (English breakfast) appeared at this time and was an abbreviation of the words "break night fast".

Religious rituals also created the full British breakfast. The names of different meals come from Easter practice and fasting that preceded Easter. Most of the meat that was consumed was pork and its byproducts, because the pork serves as a caloric warehouse and feeds on everything. Meat was often associated with eggs.

But initially, it is very likely that this morning's morning would not really be consumed in the morning. By the middle of the 17th century it is believed that all social classes began to eat breakfast. From the East, tea and coffee arrived as a companion for the first time, while the beaten eggs appeared on the tables of the rich. From the 1740s, rich breakfast families also appeared in the rich families.

In the 19th century, this practice reached decadence levels through aristocratic circles. During hunting holidays, up to 24 different types of meals were offered for breakfast.

The industrial revolution in the mid-19th century also led to the rule setting for working hours and workers needed a pre-labor meal to earn the right energy. All social strata started eating breakfast before going to work, even executives.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the morning was once again revolutionized by an American, John Harvey Kellogg. He accidentally left without boiled corn, which became stale. He broke them and barked, thus creating what we know today as grain, or cornflower. Thus, a multimillionaire industry was set up.

By the 1920s, the government was promoting morning meals as the most important meal of the day, but when World War II arrived, the morning was very difficult to find. In the 1950's, when the economy began to improve and brought, among other things, the sheaf of bread (an American invention), cut loaf of bread, ready-made coffee and prepared cereals, the morning changed a bit. Here we arrived at this meal, as we know it today.

Lunch

From the time of the Romans until the Middle Ages, they all ate at midday. But the lunch itself, as we know it today, did not even exist as a word. Throughout the history of mankind, sunlight also determined the time of eating. In the absence of electricity, people woke up early to use the maximum sunlight. Workers often worked in the daylight in the fields and in the middle of the day were hungry.

"The whole day was structured very differently from today," says Day. "People woke up early and went to bed much earlier." Until noon, they had worked for over six hours. They usually took a short break to eat, known as midday meals. They usually ate bread and cheese. When artificial light was developed, the supper began to shift later to the rich and consequently, a lighter lunch was enough.

dinner

Dinner was the only meal that the Romans ate, though not eaten at the time we consider dinner. The aristocrats of the day ate a great meal with a big meal, which often followed until late.

Dinners were both exposures of wealth and power, and cooks often worked early in the morning to prepare all things. Because there was no electricity, ready