Compared to breakfast-eaters, breakfast-skippers tend to weigh more and have other unhealthy habits, such as consuming too many sugary drinks or high-calorie snacks."Breakfast is the most important meal of the Day" is a statement made up by the cereal industry.
And cereal is the worst possible thing you could eat for breakfast.
Humans have a glucose spike in the morning after they get up- they produce their own energy so they can go out and find some food. Right after you get up is the Exact Wrong time to eat.
The problem is, if you skip breakfast- modern schedules then make people wait too long to eat lunch.
Their serum glucose levels drop too low, and they get food cravings, eat carbs and worsen the cycle.
So the standard solution is feeding people early, and sending them off and hoping it lasts until lunch. Unfortunately, as I said before, this usually involves breakfast cereal- carbohydrates. In susceptible people, this actually increases the glucose and insulin burden, causing a blood sugar surge and crash, making it worse. These people tend to become breakfast skippers. The ones who already have glucose problems...
I have a whole rant in my head about the sleep and dietary problems caused by the distorted schedule of industrial society. It seems to be a basic issue. In the meantime:
The problem is not breakfast. It's carbohydrates.
