Little Evidence Breakfast Helps with Weight Loss

 

 

There is little actual evidence that eating breakfast can help people lose weight. The thinking had been that people who skip breakfast end up overeating later in the day. But a recent clinical study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found no evidence that eating breakfast protects against weight gain.

A group of 50 obese women were told to either eat breakfast or to skip breakfast every day for 12 weeks. Neither group gained or lost more weight (on average) than the other.

While this is not to say that timing has no impact on weight loss, it supports the idea that total calories consumed is the key factor and not when they are consumed.