Should You Force Yourself To Eat Breakfast Even If You Aren't Hungry?

We at The Huffington Post have no problem calling breakfast the most important meal of the day, and generally, experts don’t either. Long term studies link skipping breakfast to a higher risk of obesity, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes, while eating breakfast is linked to a bunch of other benefits like a higher I.Q. But these studies, long-term though they may be, only establish a correlational relationship between breakfast and health outcomes. In other words, they don’t demonstrate that eating or not eating breakfast actually causes these diseases and conditions. Instead, they simply show if a person is more or less likely to be at risk of something based on their breakfast habits. So what kind of research can show a cause-and-effect relationship between breakfast and health? Randomized controlled trials, in which one group of participants is told to skip breakfast, while a control group eats breakfast as normal (or vice versa). These results are generally considered stronger evidence than the studies that only reveal a correlation. Breakfast researchers who conduct these kinds of trials are a lot less convinced of the meal's supposed ability to help us lose weight and avoid chronic disease.  Here are a few recent RCTs and their findings about how breakfast affects health.   1. Eating breakfast doesn’t appear to have any effect on the ability to lose weight. Researchers from University of Alabama at Birmingham randomized 300 healthy bu...
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