Happy & Healthy

BREAKFAST? NICE TO SKIP

God, don't let our Jet hear this, but there seem to be cracks forming in the sacred image of breakfast. Generally, it is said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day You become more active, stay slimmer, and have less snack cravings throughout the day. Now, I am a notoriously bad breakfast eater and I always feel extremely guilty about it, but new research gives me hope. Is breakfast really that important?

A wise man and doctor named James Betts, a nutrition lecturer at the University of Bath, never believed that whole story about breakfast. According to him, it is mainly marketing talk from cereal producers and other providers who benefit from people placing a high value on their breakfast. Due to a lack of good research on breakfast, he set up an experiment himself.

“But well, in the world of nutrition and health, there is not one truth”

He gathered a group of test subjects, had half of them eat breakfast with a meal of at least 700 kilocalories, and the other half could only have water for breakfast. The outcome was that the people who skipped breakfast took more at lunch, but in total consumed fewer calories. And the non-breakfast eaters did not have a higher body fat percentage and did not gain weight either.

Hmmm, very interesting, isn't it? A psychology professor named Peter Rogers explains to the Daily Mail that we humans actually always eat too much. As in: it's perfectly fine to skip a meal every now and then. And since breakfast is the easiest to skip, it's not crazy to actually do that.

But well, in the world of nutrition and health, there is not one truth. What works very well for one person is a disaster for another. But at least I am not worrying so much about my bad breakfast habits anymore, and that is worth something too.