We’ve been informed of several old classics such as ‘carrots give you night vision’, ‘Santa doesn’t bring toys to misbehaving children’ and several other myth-like classics, the latest one appears to be one of the most well-used phrases in the arsenal of parents everywhere stating that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. As most of us grew up, we were made to believe that skipping breakfast is a dietary travesty. The only clue that supports the argument that breakfast is supposed to be important is in its name, Breakfast, simply interpreted as an advice to eat it in order to break our overnight fast. Sarah Elder, A dietician said in one of his quotes “The body uses a lot of energy for growth and repair all through the night,” and explains that eating a balanced breakfast helps to up our energy, as well as protein and calcium used throughout the night.
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But contradictory to this, there’re widespread disagreement over whether breakfast should keep its top spot in the hierarchy of meals above lunch, dinner and even appetizers when we consider other people’s meal format. So with all these, what’s the reality? Is breakfast a mandatory start to the day or simply a marketing ploy by cereal companies?
The most researched aspect of breakfast (and breakfast-skipping) has been its links to obesity. Several scientists have different theories as to why there’s a relationship between the two. But as with any study of this kind, it was unclear if that was the cause of the general argument – or if breakfast-skippers were just more likely to be overweight to begin with. To test out this argument and come out with points to prove, researchers designed a study in which 52 obese women took part in a 12-week weight loss scheme. All had the same number of calories over the day, but half had breakfast, while the other half did not. The result of this scheme proved that it wasn’t breakfast itself that caused the participants to lose weight, their weight loss was attributed to changing their normal routine. The women who said before the study that they usually ate breakfast lost 8.9kg when they stopped having breakfast, compared to 6.2kg in the breakfast eating group. Meanwhile, those who usually skipped breakfast lost 7.7kg when they started eating it and 6kg when they continued to skip it.
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So with this result, we throw a question to the general public and asks if breakfast alone isn’t a guarantee of weight loss, why is there a link between obesity and skipping breakfast?
So let’s hear your view about this argument in the comment section, is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
