Which scenario supports the **sequence** definition of breakfast when adhering to the 'break the fast' rule?
An 8:00 AM meal for someone who worked the night shift
The sequence definition dictates that the timing relative to the solar day is secondary to the timing relative to the body's last intake of food. A person working a night shift will have a vastly different biological clock than someone on a standard schedule. If such an individual wakes up at 7:30 PM, sleeps during the typical morning hours, and then consumes their first calories at 8:00 AM the following morning, that 8:00 AM ingestion is, functionally, the meal that terminates the sleep-induced fast. To insist it is not breakfast merely because it occurs during the standard 'lunch' period for others ignores the individual's necessary pattern of fasting and feeding, thus supporting the argument that sequence—the first meal after fasting—is the definitive criterion.
