Observational studies have shown an association between eating breakfast and having a lower body weight, and clinicians have long recommended eating breakfast as a major piece of the weight-loss puzzle.
But no randomized controlled studies have been done. So Dhurandhar and colleagues studied 309 overweight and obese patients over a 16-week period. Patients were assigned to one of three arms: an intervention group told to eat breakfast, an intervention group told to skip breakfast, or a control group that wasn't given any specific information about breakfast. The control group could eat or skip breakfast as they pleased.
Overall, the researchers saw no differences between groups in terms of weight loss, despite good compliance in all arms.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
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Passing on Breakfast OK for Weight Loss
