Skipping Breakfast Makes You Fat, but NOT by Increasing Appetite
You will certainly have heard of the scientifically proven correlation between skipping breakfast and getting obese. At least for children a group led by Tanya VE Kral ( Kral. 2010 ) has now found "Omitting breakfast affected children’s appetite ratings but not their energy intake at subsequent meals ." Astonishing as this may sound, the results of their investigation are unequivocal: There was no significant main effect of breakfast condition on energy intake at lunch (P = 0.36) or throughout the remainder of the day (P = 0.85). There was a significant main effect of breakfast condition (P = 0.04) on total daily energy intake, which indicated that on the day when the subjects did not eat breakfast, they consumed 362 fewer calories over the course of the day than when they did eat breakfast. On the day when no breakfast was served, subjects indicated that they were significantly hungrier, less full, and could consume more food before lunch than on the day when they did ea...