Kids who skip breakfast will pay for it later because they tend to cram empty calories later to stave off hunger, shows a study by The Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School.
The “most important meal of the day” has greater importance today shows a study of more than 20,000 school-age students who were more likely to choose quick, tasty non-nutritious fast-food and overeat it because they are even hungrier later in the day. And skipping breakfast and eating fast food “were associated with increased weight gain” between ages 11 and 21 and ages 18 to 27.
The upshot: Beating the battle of the bulge starts when you’re young and can learn to make healthier food choices and develop the habit of eating breakfast. Those food choice habits strongly predict whether you’ll be overweight when you’re older.
