Shocking, I know. But researchers have looked into various data from multiple studies that tried to compare whether eating or skipping breakfast could help lose weight and increase metabolic rates throughout the day.
They conclude that eating breakfast does not promote weight loss or increase one's metabolism. Rather, it may actually have the opposite effect and cause one to gain a little weight as opposed to skipping breakfast.
Though this is not to say that we should skip breakfast altogether. There are still benefits associated with it:
"Although eating breakfast regularly could have other important effects, such as improved concentration and attentiveness levels in childhood, caution is needed when recommending breakfast for weight loss in adults, as it could have the opposite effect," the researchers conclude in the published article.
So why is it that we have often heard that breakfast is the "most important meal of the day"? Read more on New Atlas.
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