Skipping Breakfast May Not Lead To Weight Gain.

that the common notion that “not eating breakfast has been associated with excess body weight,” may just be speculation or “may be completely unfounded,” as new studies emerge to suggest the contrary. For instance, research from Columbia University last year showed that “in overweight individuals, skipping breakfast daily for 4 weeks leads to a reduction in body weight.” t 8:30 in the morning for four weeks, one group of subjects got oatmeal, another got frosted corn flakes and a third got nothing. And the only group to lose weight was ... the group that skipped breakfast. Other trials, too, have similarly contradicted the federal advice, showing that skipping breakfast led to lower weight or no change at all. “In overweight individuals, skipping breakfast daily for 4 weeks leads to a reduction in body weight,” the researchers from Columbia University concluded in a paper published last year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/