But it’s when you break your fast. It’s the one when you eat after the longest gap since your previous meal. If food is fuel, that is when the tank is at its emptiest. Yet:
That’s reasonable, sure, 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.”
In one study, 300 people ate or skipped breakfast and showed no subsequent difference in their weight gained or lost. Researcher Emily Dhurandhar said the findings suggest that breakfast “may be just another meal” and admitted to a history Breakfast-Police allegiance, conceding “I guess I won’t nag my husband to eat breakfast anymore.”
Mind you, I do lurch to my desk with just a mug of tea at 5am. I’ll make breakfast for us around 8am. But sometimes I am actually in pain from hunger by then, I just don’t notice for a long time.
Read the full piece for just how split the vote on this is but also with reasons why you might want to skip breakfast. Just do it on your own recognisance, okay? No blaming me.