New Delhi, July 12 -- While it makes complete sense to understand that the body would need protein first thing in the morning, it was quite revealing to know that there is another important component of nutrition that can also be as beneficial to consume as a first meal. It's fat. This concept has a simple name as well: fat first.

I was alerted to this by a filmmaker friend who I was visiting and she offered a glass of cacao instead of coffee. But taste was not the only reason she had substituted a cup of joe for a cup of cacao. Over the last few years, the fat first approach is catching on and Shreya Katyayini decided to go for it. For one, it was a drastic reduction in caffeine intake in the morning as cacao has 25 percent of what coff...