The words familiar to us - "breakfast, lunch, dinner" - are increasingly being replaced by foreign ones. And here a Russian person has a completely logical question - why? We are dearer and more familiar.
It may be so. Except we don't even know why breakfast is called breakfast. And why lunch and dinner were given these names.
The article will talk about it. Read carefully - you will find out everything.
Breakfast - what is it?
Morning meal. Very fast, because in the morning everyone is in a hurry somewhere. I grabbed a sandwich with a cup of coffee on the run - that's the whole breakfast. There really isn't much use for it, really. Whether business - porridge. Many do not like her, but such a breakfast gives a feeling of satiety for a long time.
We are all talking about breakfast. Why is breakfast called breakfast? Who will answer this question?
There are no applicants. So get ready to listen carefully.
It all started from ancient times. In Russia, the word "breakfast" did not exist. They said "in the morning". That is, the next morning. And this word was written separately.
Later it was merged into one. They began to write "morning". After some time, the letter "y" was replaced by "v". And it turned out "breakfast" or "breakfast". So the word was pronounced by illiterate peasants.
Why is breakfast called breakfast? Just because of one changed letter? No, also because the food for the next day was prepared in the evening. And they ate it in the morning. Hence the "for mornings". The peasants woke up very early. And the first breakfast was at 5 am. Usually, they ate bread with lard and onions. And washed down with kvass or milk. "Morning" was used later.
We came to you for lunch
Why breakfast is called breakfast is understandable. The dinner got its name after what?
Everything here is very confusing and strange. There is an opinion that lunch is a derivative of the word "food". And it did not come from poorly educated peasants. Literate people from high society "dabbled" with this word.
We're talking about dinner
Why is breakfast called breakfast, lunch is called lunch, and dinner is called dinner? We have dealt with the first two concepts.
Dinner is a word formed from the word "south" and the suffix "in". And what about the south? The thing is that in Russia the south was called "ug". Then the soft sign was lost, the letter "g" was replaced by "g". And we got what we have now. Namely, dinner.
How is the evening, and often late, meal connected with the south? Southern people eat later? Not at all. Let's go back to ancient Russia. Let's go to any village and observe the peasant life.
There is a lot of work in the field. When the mowing goes - there is no time to breathe. And they mow in the summer, on the warmest days. Can you imagine what it was like for people to be under the rays of the sun, in an open area? Many received heatstroke.
That's when the decision was made. Go to the mowing at dawn. And, while it's not so hot yet, finish it. It is known that from 12 noon to 16:00 is the hottest. The peasants were in a hurry to complete their affairs until the sun "went south." And on the south side, it turned out just in time for noon.
Why is it called "breakfast, lunch, dinner"? With the first two words, everything is clear. And smoothly finish the story of the third title.
After the sun moved to the south, people left work. And they went to eat. Hence the name of the meal - dinner. In those days it came at noon.
Now we call dinner the evening meal. Her time comes from 17:00 pm until late at night. The old times have passed, but the words have remained in the everyday life of modern people.
Conclusion
Now each of us knows why breakfast is called breakfast, lunch is called lunch, and dinner is called dinner. Everything happened, as we see, since the time of our ancestors.
Now the words have changed somewhat, adapting to the patterns of the modern language. The time of this or that meal has also shifted. But the essence remains the same.
Knowing about the past, let's not replace the original Russian names with "overseas" ones. Our words and language are very beautiful. Looking for an alternative is pointless. It is better to return to the roots and penetrate deeper into the secrets of the Russian language.
The funniest
Early morning in the village, an ordinary family mother, son and father without legs,
Early morning in the village, an ordinary family mother, son and father without legs, who lost in the war. The son is going hunting, takes a gun, a cartridge, then dad creeps up to him and says:
- Son, take me hunting, I really want to!
- Dad, how can I take you, you don’t have legs, what’s the use of you?
- And you, son, put me in a backpack behind my back, and if you suddenly see a bear, you shoot at him - you won’t hit him, turn your back, and I’ll kill him with one shot, you know - I shoot a squirrel in the eye from 100 meters! So we will bring home the booty, there will be something to eat in the winter.
The son thought and thought and said - Okay, dad, let's go.
They are walking through the forest, their father is sitting in a backpack, and then a bear meets them. The son shoots, misses, shoots again - again a miss, turns his back, dad shoots - also waves, again - another miss. The bear is already rushing at them, well, the son will give a tear, and in the meantime the father is shouting - they say faster, they will catch up! They've been running for an hour, they don't have the strength, the son understands that they won't run so far with dad - both will disappear, he decided to drop his backpack and run on.
He runs all out of breath home and says to his mother:
- Mother, we no longer have a father ... - with tears in his eyes.
The mother calmly puts down the frying pan, turns to him and says:
- How did I get fucked with my hunting, then dad ran in his arms 10 minutes ago, said that we no longer have a son!
They called a man at work for a corporate party, they allowed him to come
They called a man at work to a corporate party, they allowed him to come with his wives, the corporate party was themed - a masquerade, you had to come in costumes, with masks. No sooner said than done, they got together before leaving, and the wife had a headache, she said, "Go without me, and I'll lie down at home for now" - and she herself came up with a cunning plan - to follow the peasant, how he will behave at the masquerade, pester Zinka from the accounting department or even get drunk. Before leaving, she changed her costume, comes and sees how her hubby is dancing with one, then circling the other, guard! She decided to check how far he would go, invited him to dance, they dance and whisper in his ear: - Maybe we’ll retire ...
They retired, did their business, the wife quickly left home. The husband arrived a little later, she decided to ask him:
J - So what? How do you corporate?!
M - Yes, gray boredom, the guys and I decided to go play poker, and before that, Petrovich, our boss asked him to change suits with him, since he got his dirty, so he was lucky, can you imagine, some kind of woman in f@pu gave!
Perestroika, collective farms are slowly dying out, everyone has gathered
Perestroika, collective farms are slowly dying down, all the animals have gathered in the barnyard and are discussing their future fate.
The bulls were the first to come out, they say: We must leave here while the hooves are intact. The roof has already leaked in the hangar, that it’s not rain, so we swim like ducks. Next come the pigs: they haven’t eaten normal food for 100 years, the straw is all rotten, they give water every three days. You can't live like this, you have to leave. All other animals supported: Yes, yes, enough to endure it and let's go. One Sharik sits still, everyone asks him:
- Sharik, why are you sitting?! Go with us!
Sharik answers:
- No, I won’t go with you, I have a prospect!
Animals:
- What is the prospect? You will die of hunger here!
Ball:
- No, guys, I have a prospect here!
Animals:
- Well, what is your prospect here, you will get sick, pick up fleas and die alone here!
Ball:
- Not guys, I have a prospect ...
Animals:
- What is the prospect?!?!?!
Ball:
- I heard that the hostess said to the owner "... if things go on like this, then we will suck at Sharik's all winter ..."
The girl invited the guy to visit, romantic, that's all. And at
The girl invited the guy to visit, romantic, that's all. And at that moment his stomach twirled, he simply no longer had the strength to endure. They come to her apartment and the girl says:
- You come in, do not be shy, go into the room, and now I'm going to the bathroom - I'll powder my nose ...
It was somehow inconvenient for the guy to ask her forward, he decided to be patient, although he already had no strength to endure. Passes into the room, looks - a big dog is sitting. He took it and piled it in the room, and thinks that he will blame everything later on the dog, while he himself, contented at the time, goes to the kitchen to drink tea.
The girl with the bath comes out and asks him:
D: Why don't you go into the room?
P: Yes, there is a big dog, I'm afraid of it.
D: I found someone to be scared, she's plush ...
P: Wow, but shit like a real one!
The son approaches his father and asks: - Dad, what is
The son approaches his father and asks:
- Dad, what is virtual reality?
Dad thought a little and said to his son:
- Son, to give you an answer to this question, go to your mother, grandparents, and ask them if they could sleep with an African for 1 million dollars. He approaches his mother and asks:
- Mom, would you be able to sleep with an African for 1 million dollars?
- Well, son, it's not tricky, and we need money, of course I could!
Then he approaches the grandmother with the same question, the grandmother answers him:
- Of course, granddaughter! If I had a million dollars, I would have lived for the same number of years!!!
It's the grandfather's turn, the grandfather answers:
- Well, actually, once it doesn’t count, so of course - yes, for this million we would build a house by the sea, but we would finally leave my grandmother!
The son returns to his father with the results, and the father says to him:
- You see, son, in virtual reality we have three million dollars, and in real reality - 2 simple # tutki and one pid @ r # s!
You have probably heard the saying more than once: “Eat breakfast yourself, share lunch with a friend, give dinner to the enemy.” For decades, breakfast was considered to be the most important meal of the day - I grew up with this idea myself and could not leave the house in the morning without eating.
And this is not just a popular notion of proper nutrition - in 2010 it was enshrined in the official American Dietary Guidelines. As stated in the Recommendations, “no breakfast is associated with being overweight.” The word "associated" usually means that there is a statistical correlation, but is not evidence of a causal relationship. In this case, this claim was made on the basis of a number of observational studies that did not find a very strong correlation: in the Recommendations, the evidence was called “modest” in relation to children's nutrition and “incomplete” in relation to adults. Interestingly, at least some of this research was funded by breakfast cereal companies.
Of course, observational studies are not truly evidence-based. Their essence lies in the fact that scientists observe a group of people for a long time and try to identify links between their eating habits and health indicators. But if there is such a connection, then this does not mean at all that breakfast was the reason. For example, people who ate breakfast regularly were 13% less likely to be overweight. It is likely that they tended to follow other health tips and took better care of themselves.
The official support for the hypothesis of the special importance of breakfast added to its popularity, secured the support of the press and turned it into a generally accepted dogma. However, the few randomized controlled trials that have been conducted on this topic have indicated that the situation is just the opposite: breakfast, at a minimum, does not help to lose weight, and perhaps it does.
In 2013, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition was published, the authors of which analyzed five randomized studies available at that time on the special benefits of breakfast. They concluded that it was about "belief that surpasses the evidence" and that many research reports are written in a way that distorts their results in favor of conventional wisdom.
Another interesting one was published in the 2014 Journal of Nutritional Science. The authors examined various types of breakfast and concluded that skipping breakfast for 4 weeks resulted in greater weight loss than both oatmeal (so beloved in “healthy eating” circles) and cornflakes.
And here is another, very fresh, study was recently published in the International Journal of Obesity. Its authors decided to test the hypothesis that skipping breakfast leads to overeating during the day. The study involved 8 overweight men and 16 women. Participants experienced two types of food: with a typical high-carbohydrate breakfast and no breakfast at all. In both cases, they ate lunch at the same time and without any restrictions. The experiment showed that skipping breakfast had little to no effect on how much food people ate for lunch. The difference turned out to be extremely insignificant: only 218 kJ, or 52 kcal, more. On the other hand, the overall reduction in daily caloric intake when breakfast was waived turned out to be quite significant: 1964 kJ, or 469 kcal, almost a quarter of the average daily intake.
Interestingly, skipping breakfast also changed the body's hormonal response to food: By lunchtime, participants had slightly lower levels of leptin, which sends signals about satiety. However, appetite-increasing ghrelin also decreased after dinner, although insulin production and total blood sugar increased (participants ate their usual high-carbohydrate meal).
According to the authors of the study, for the first time they were able to experimentally prove that the refusal of breakfast does not lead to compensatory overeating at lunch and increased appetite in the afternoon. In fact, scientists have proven a very simple rule: if you eat twice a day instead of three, then as a result you will eat less, not more. So if you're looking to lose weight, skipping breakfast might be a smart move. It's strange that it used to be the other way around.
On the other hand, you should not build the refusal of breakfast into the category of a new dogma. All people are different: someone likes to limit himself to a cup of coffee in the morning, and someone wants to have a real breakfast. Both can be healthy habits if done right. I myself have tried this and that, but, as a rule, I still have breakfast. Firstly, because I like: scrambled eggs, or bacon scrambled eggs, vegetables, cheeses, cheese, sometimes low-carb, or. And they are quicker and easier to prepare than a regular lunch. And secondly, because such a breakfast is enough for me for the whole day and I really like that I can not interrupt work in the middle of the day because of lunch. I also eat only twice a day, but I sacrifice lunch much more often than breakfast. Although, if I have a lot to do in the morning, an early flight, or a business lunch is planned, then I can easily do without breakfast. And Dr. Enfeldt, for example, said that he had breakfast only on weekends, on weekdays the first meal for him was lunch.
And how are things going with you? How many times a day do you eat? How important is breakfast to you?
The answers to this question may vary, but it’s important to remember that eating three meals a day just because “it’s customary” is definitely not the best idea.
