Eating Breakfast Is Likely To Make It More Difficult To Lose Weight, Says Study

When it comes to losing weight and being healthy does eating breakfast really matter? It seems that breakfast sets the beginning tone of the day as previously determined. Traditionally breakfast refers to breaking the ‘fasting period' of the prior night, as previously mentioned. Here Nina Avramova, CNN, reflects on a recent study contrary to weight loss advice, that shows people who eat breakfast do not slim down.

“If you're trying to lose weight you've probably been told not to skip breakfast, as it could make you hungrier later in the day.

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But a new analysis found that people who ate breakfast regularly consumed more calories each day and those who skipped it didn't have an increased appetite later in the day.

This meant those who ate breakfast experienced no weight loss and people who skipped their morning meal also saw no weight gain, according to the research published Wednesday in the BMJ.

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Public health agencies and official eating guidelines have long stressed the importance of eating breakfast to lose weight and achieve a healthy diet but “this study clearly shows that isn't a good idea,” said lead author Dr Flavia Cicuttini, professor of epidemiology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Cicuttini's team pooled results from 13 clinical trials from high-income countries, mainly the United States and the UK, from the last 28 years.

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The studies included people who regularly eat breakfast and non-breakfast eaters. Five trials included overweight participants, the remaining had people with any range of body weight. Some trials looked at how breakfast effected on daily energy intake and others examined the relationship between eating in the morning and changes in body weight.

The researchers found that “the people who eat breakfast tend to have on average 260 calories a day extra and they tend to be heavier,” Cicuttini said, regardless of the participants being used to having regularly breakfast or not.

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People that skipped breakfast were on average 0.44 kg [0.97 pounds] lighter, according to the paper.The results suggest that eating breakfast contributes to weight gain “simply by more calorie intake,” according to Cicuttini. The clinical trials show that if people are encouraged to eat breakfast, they still eat more calories than they should later in the day, she said.

However, she added the latest findings should be interpreted with caution because some of the 13 trials used in their study didn't last long and the quality of the trials varied.”

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