Breakfast and Weight Loss, Part 2

Today we’re going to review the second study that reported eating breakfast may have no relationship to whether you’re overweight. This approach is radically different from the study I talked about on Tuesday. The approach in this study was to examine many variables related to metabolic rate, activity, and measure of fat and sugar metabolism (1). The goal was to answer the question whether breakfast “jumpstarts” metabolism, therefore assisting people to lose weight.

Researchers divided 33 normal-weight men and women into two groups. One group skipped breakfast entirely and didn’t eat until after noon. The other . . .

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