Just Eat It? Don’t Break Fast or Breakfast?

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On my homepage, I reviewed
the positive and negative aspects of intermittent fasting (cycling between fasting and eating). Now, I review some studies
on health associations of eating breakfast in the morning.

1. Breakfast and Body Weight

One retrospective
analysis of 186 participants in a metabolic clinic demonstrated an association
between eating breakfast and lowered body weight. (1)

2. May Be a Benefit
to Obese Children

One study with 156 obese Chinese adolescents
compared isoenergetic (equal in calories) breakfasts with either an egg or steamed bread. The most interesting thing I found with this study was …read more