Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Why are we so sure that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?Because there a breakfast industry, that's why. Funding something called Breakfast Science.
The same effect has been studied in Asia and in Europe, in children and in grown-ups, and the answer always seems to be the same: The more regularly you eat breakfast, the slimmer you’ll be. The mere fact of this association doesn’t tell us very much about what breakfast really does, of course, and it’s possible that the case for eggs and toast has been overblown. A study published last week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition starts with this simple fact—that in spite of all these association studies, no one knows exactly what skipping breakfast might be doing to our bodies. The study goes on to make a disturbing claim: Scholars in this field of inquiry—breakfast science—have been fudging facts and misinterpreting the science. The literature shows signs of research bias.I'm shocked, just shocked.
Does skipping breakfast make them fat, or do people who are getting fat choose to skip breakfast?Hmmm. I wonder. Do you think fat people are stupid or not?
