Originally published August 17 2005
Don’t skip your morning meal
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Many people skip eating breakfast, but doctors say it is the most important meal of the day.
A lot of people feel the same way about breakfast.
-In another study, reported on the popular health Web site WebMD, scientists found that women who skipped breakfast ate more during the rest of the day and had higher levels of LDL, or bad, cholesterol.
But it's also worth noting that the funding for the first study (and many others) was provided by the Kellogg Co., one of the world's leading producers of breakfast cereal, so perhaps it's not surprising the researchers stressed that eating ready-to-eat cereal is a good thing.
In the second study, the scientists found that eating breakfast was a characteristic common to many of the successful weight loss maintainers but did not conclude that it caused their success.
As for the last study, it involved only 10 women who skipped breakfast for two weeks.
Breakfast, says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is a nonissue for healthy adults.
"None of this research will convince people to eat breakfast if they don't want to," she says.
"The reason is that the (government's) nutrition guidance has to do with daily intake - meals over a period of a day," says Susan Acker of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.
Even orange juice isn't as sacred a part of the American breakfast as it used to be: The new food pyramid released recommends eating fruit over drinking juice.
Nutritionists argue that by the time you get up, 10 or 12 hours after your last meal, your body is in fasting mode.
In 1984, Americans got 5 percent of their main morning meals outside the home.
Last year, that number rose to 8 percent.
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