A new analysis has found that people who eat breakfast regularly consumed more calories each day than those who skipped it.
This disbands the former notion that taking breakfast is paramount for weight loss, to give you energy that can sustain you throughout the day even as you skip other meals.
“While breakfast has been advocated as the most important meal of the day in the media since 1917, there is a paucity of evidence to support breakfast consumption as a strategy to achieve weight loss, including in adults with overweight or obesity,” reads the research by the BMJ, a global healthcare knowledge provider.
The research that was published on January 30, 2019 in fact reveals that the people who eat breakfast tend to have on average 260 calories more a day than those who skip breakfast. Therefore, those who skipped breakfast were on average 0.44 kg [0.97 pounds] lighter.
“Recommending regular breakfast consumption could adversely affect weight control by adding calories to diets, especially in older people with established eating behaviours, because past food habits are important predictors of current food habits,” the report adds.
The survey similarly recognizes the “important effects” that breakfast has in improving concentration and attentiveness levels in childhood, but still insists that caution should be made when recommending breakfast for weight loss in adults, as it could have the opposite effects.
That established, would you sacrifice the ‘most important meal of the day’ for the sake of your 2019 weight loss resolution?