News Breakfast Downgraded From 'Most Important Meal of the Day' to 'Meal'

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"You didn't eat breakfast? Don't you know it's the most important meal of the day?"

In the bitterly divided world of breakfast habits, otherwise reasonable people become evangelists. Why is it acceptable to make people feel guilty about not eating breakfast, but it is not acceptable to slap those people?

This week health columnist Gretchen Reynolds at The New York Times did the slapping with science, reporting on two new nutrition studies. She concluded, "If you like breakfast, fine; but if not, don’t sweat it."

That's reasonable, if apathetic. Nutrition science as a field has in recent years been bisected over the importance of breakfast. The research speaks with more nuance than the lay breakfast pusher. But the new studies land a weight of evidence thoroughly outside the realm of "most important meal."

 
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thewrongvine

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Well, have they done tests on any other meal? As in if time of eating affects you over the fact that eventually you still will have a healthy enough amount of meals to give you energy.
 

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Well, have they done tests on any other meal? As in if time of eating affects you over the fact that eventually you still will have a healthy enough amount of meals to give you energy.

Been skipping out breakfast for a month. So far, I felt unhealthy, but indifferent.
 

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I mean if I skip any meal I will feel more tired for the following hours, but that is regardless of what meal specifically it is.
 

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I mean if I skip any meal I will feel more tired for the following hours, but that is regardless of what meal specifically it is.
You probably require high amounts of blood sugar in your meal.
 

Varine

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I hate breakfast. I do love capn crunch though.
 

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I mean if I skip any meal I will feel more tired for the following hours, but that is regardless of what meal specifically it is.
Well, It's all very individual and how you feel.
I have a lot more energy and feel a lot better when I don't eat breakfast !
 

thewrongvine

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You probably require high amounts of blood sugar in your meal.

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What I think of, lol. Literal blood sugar. Yeah, I know a good amount of people who prefer to skip breakfast.
 

Varine

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I just call all meals meal. Steaks in the morning, cereal at midnight, and white Russians at noon.
 

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I eat all day long but never much. Just many small snacks whenever I feel like it.
 
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