Is Breakfast Really Good for You? What the Research Says ...
Psychgrrl
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Sadly, I'm not at all surprised some of the studies touting the importance of eating breakfast were funded by cereal companies, just like the studies funded by tobacco companies saying cigarettes were safe ... 
time.com/5516364/is-eating-breakfast-healthy/
Edited because I couldn't spell "cigarettes" correctly.
time.com/5516364/is-eating-breakfast-healthy/
Edited because I couldn't spell "cigarettes" correctly.
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I only read part of it, but meal timing doesn’t matter for weight loss. Calories are king. You want breakfast? Eat it. Don’t want breakfast? Skip it. Stay with mom your calorie goals and the results will be the same either way.8
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Stay within your calorie goal... won’t let me edit the typo for some reason.5
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I don’t think I’d compare it to tobacco companies funding studies on cigarettes. Eating breakfast isn’t going to cause cancer or even make you gain weight. Nothing in that article says that breakfast is bad for you just that it’s not some miracle for weight loss which yeah, duh.10
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The Bragg's Company pays me $10 for every apple cider vinegar post. I sometimes earn enough to pay my internet bill.15
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It´s just about calories in vs out. Doesn´t matter if you have breakfast or not. Actually, if I don´t have breakfast I feel miserable all day as my bloodpressure crashes and doesn´t really come up for most of the day. I first need to be awake though, thus even if I wake up at 7, I usually have breakfast around 9. That means I can´t do morning workouts or do other things deemed active.5
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ive lost 120 pounds and rarely eat breakfast. sometimes i will have a light something, but not usually. i get up around 5 am and eat lunch around 11 or so3
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I read this article.
Eating less calories than your body burns is how you lose weight. What you eat and when you eat is a personal choice and really doesn’t matter for weight loss, as long as you are eating at a calorie deficit.
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ClaytonsDad1208 wrote: »I only read part of it, but meal timing doesn’t matter for weight loss. Calories are king. You want breakfast? Eat it. Don’t want breakfast? Skip it. Stay with mom your calorie goals and the results will be the same either way.
Yup.
And whenever someone says "I know I have to eat breakfast, but I am not hungry" on MFP the "breakfast is the most important meal" thing gets quickly debunked, and it is noted that that was popularized by Kellogg's.
I like breakfast and eat it most days now, but if that changed and I started not wanting food in the morning again (as I did at one point), I'd stop eating it.4 -
It is certainly good for my mental health, and the general health and well-being of anyone I have to deal with!
Husband never does though. Generally ignore all this bumph and assume it's personal preference.
What really gets me going is all the crap that's sold as breakfast cereal. Have it or not, but sugary cereal with chocolate, biscuits etc. none of that is worth having. Rant over.9 -
Breakfast is whenever you decide to eat your first meal of the day10
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if breakfast is the most important meal of the day then dinner must be the the least important? I dunno...I never felt there was logic to that statement. I don't think someone who eats first thing in the morning is going to be any healthier then the person who doesn't eat till lunch time...just my 2 cents0
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I don't know if eating breakfast is really good for me, but without a doubt, me eating breakfast is good for my co-workers!4
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Meal times are a preference, I generally eat breakfast because if I don't it aggravates my IBS and that is not a good day for me.0
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firecat1987 wrote: »Meal times are a preference, I generally eat breakfast because if I don't it aggravates my IBS and that is not a good day for me.
^^^ this is a good reason to eat breakfast in the morning. I eat breakfast in the morning 1 day a week because it is a family outing with my 80 year old father and sister. If it weren't for that outing, I would never eat breakfast in the morning.3 -
ClaytonsDad1208 wrote: »Stay within your calorie goal... won’t let me edit the typo for some reason.
Interesting - the edit gear isn't working for me either. Glad to know it's not just me. The Notifications button isn't working for me either.0 -
Is breakfast good for me? Why would it be worse than any other meal? I choose to not eat as much bacon and eggs as I can, or used to lol, but that applies across all my meals. Plate push-aways are hard, but they work.0
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Breakfast is horrible for me. It makes me ravenous the rest of the day. In order for me to get to a healthier weight and avoid a murderous rampage while doing it skipping breakfast is mandatory.6
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ClaytonsDad1208 wrote: »I only read part of it, but meal timing doesn’t matter for weight loss. Calories are king. You want breakfast? Eat it. Don’t want breakfast? Skip it. Stay with mom your calorie goals and the results will be the same either way.
Yup.
And whenever someone says "I know I have to eat breakfast, but I am not hungry" on MFP the "breakfast is the most important meal" thing gets quickly debunked, and it is noted that that was popularized by Kellogg's.
I like breakfast and eat it most days now, but if that changed and I started not wanting food in the morning again (as I did at one point), I'd stop eating it.
Meal timing was always one of those discussion items that when someone mentioned I immediately know I can discount a lot of what they say following it. Usefullness of calories is completely about energy stores and expenditures. So if you exercised and ate a huge meal before bed to replace any lost energy storage, a breakfast isn't going to do anything more in terms of useable energy. Seems like people think at midnight your body's slate get's completely wiped clean and you start every day in need of calories just to get you through.
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An important part of successful weight loss is figuring out what your body responds to and what it doesn't. For me, I know that breakfast is something that helps me, because my biggest challenge is hunger cravings. When I get really hungry, my body craves high calorie food, and I'm more likely to give in and order delivery of something that is outside of my calorie goals. But if I start my day with breakfast, and plan well spaced out meals that allow me to eat when I am hungry but not starving, I have a lot more success staying within my goals.
But that is just personal for me. If you find that you are the type of person who doesn't need breakfast to help you stay on track, then there is no benefit to having it vs. not having it.5 -
Breakfast is just breakfast...it's neither good nor bad for you. It's a meal. I look forward to my breakfast...today I had a nice omelette with mushrooms and cheese and a half of an avocado.5
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An important part of successful weight loss is figuring out what your body responds to and what it doesn't
But that is just personal for me. If you find that you are the type of person who doesn't need breakfast to help you stay on track, then there is no benefit to having it vs. not having it.
^^ really good points and I agree totally.
The so called “experts” seem to change their minds frequently. Telling us what’s bad, good, and indifferent,
Finding what works best for each of us is common sense, and we know ourselves better than anyone else. As long as are getting proper nutrition and calories what and when we eat should be decided individually.
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If it is published by time.com, that clues me in to suspect that they responded to some advocate with a paper from arXiv.org. No, thanks. Sometimes I have solid food with my keto coffee, sometimes I don't. I've no need of eating on someone else's schedule.1
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In our modern times we can have breakfast / lunch / dinner / a snack whenever we want to. We just open the fridge / freezer / cupboard / store room / tin can / plastic bottle / cardboard box / you name it. A million years ago our ancestors had to make a fire first and go out and kill an elephant / goose / some fish / or whatever they enjoyed eating. I find it hard to believe, that they had something to eat first thing in the morning... So now we are told that "breakfast is good for us.... I am sure for some it is, for some it isn't. What counts for me is the total calories eaten - drunk / consumed by the end of the day.
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I was under the impression that the purpose for breakfast is to feed the brain after having 8 hours of sleep7
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I was under the impression that the purpose for breakfast is to feed the brain after having 8 hours of sleep
Your brain is "fed" constently, even when you're sleeping. If someone doesn't feel the need to eat in the AM, their brain will work fine until they have their first meal.8 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
My brain seems to never work fine:)4 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
My brain seems to never work fine:)
mine is on hiatus until i give it coffee...it cares more about that than food6 -
I push breakfast as late as possible, usually around 9:30 after getting up at 3:45. Once I eat, my appetite "starts". If I eat earlier, I just get more hungry and eat more calories throughout the day.4
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kshama2001 wrote: »ClaytonsDad1208 wrote: »Stay within your calorie goal... won’t let me edit the typo for some reason.
Interesting - the edit gear isn't working for me either. Glad to know it's not just me. The Notifications button isn't working for me either.
Couldn't flag spam last night, can't see notifications today. (Granted, didn't have notifications yesterday, so no idea if it's an increasing problem or it's been this way since it started.)0
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