White bread with jam, sweet cookies, industrial juices, puffed cereals…
They look light, but they cause a blood sugar roller coaster:

  1. Sudden rise in glucose.
  2. Strong insulin discharge.
  3. Rapid sugar drop.

The brain, which is just “waking up,” gets a burst of energy first, and then a crash.
That feels like:

  • dizziness between breakfast and mid-morning,
  • blurred vision,
  • Feeling of an empty or “empty” head.

After the age of 60 the response to glucose is slower and irregular, so these peaks affect even more.

What to do

  • Swap out fast sugars for protein + fiber + healthy fat.
    • Examples:
      • natural yogurt with seeds and whole fruit,
      • whole wheat bread with avocado/avocado and egg,
      • Cooked oatmeal with nuts.
  • If you like something sweet, make it after you have eaten protein and not as the only basis for breakfast.

The goal is to give the brain stable energy, not sugar bursts.

Mistake 1: Not including foods that help stabilize blood pressure

This is the most common mistake and one of the most ignored.

Many dizziness when getting up, vision that “turns off” for an instant or feeling that the floor is tilting are due to a blood pressure that is too fragile, which rises and falls easily.