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(Reuters) – According to a review of a group of studies, having breakfast does not mean that it might be beneficial to lose weight.
The researchers looked at data from 13 clinical trials, most conducted in the United States and Britain every 30 years, some having breakfast, others not. The review found that those who ate breakfast gained more calories and weight than those who did not eat.
The results may be surprising for those who diet, because those who eat breakfast earn 260 more calories per day than those who avoid the meal and who grow 0.44 kg on average.
"Breakfast is thought to be the most important meal of the day," said Flavia Sikotini, Principal Investigator at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "But this is not the case".
"Calories are calories, no matter what time they eat, and people should not eat if they are not hungry," she said in an email.
The researchers wrote in the British Medical Journal that some previous studies had verified whether breakfast had an impact on the metabolism or on the number of calories burned by the body. But the researchers found no significant difference as to whether to have lunch or not.
But Tim Spector, a researcher at Kings College London, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, said the low calorie consumption associated with not having breakfast suggests that this approach could be effective for those who diet.
"Each of us is unique, the benefits of carbohydrates and lipids can differ depending on the genes and microorganisms of the body and the metabolic rate," he said in an email.
(Reuters)
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