You can hear or read it everywhere — breakfast is the
most important meal of the day; can’t lose weight or maintain weight loss if
you skip breakfast— it’s in media reports, government websites, even those of
the Mayo Clinic and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. But a recent
review, published in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, of relevant data and reports finds
that the research supporting such statements just isn’t there.
Dr. Andrew W. Brown and colleagues from the University of
Alabama, Birmingham, examined the research that is widely cited as evidence for
the oft-repeated statements about the importance of breakfast. In a meta-analysis
they reviewed studies purporting to show that breakfast had a positive effect
on weight loss and/or weight loss maintenance…..To Read More…..
My Take – I
saw this before today and wasn’t going to publish it because I am not impressed
with these ‘studies’. Is this a good
one? I have no idea, I didn’t look into
it. The reason I posted this is because I would
like for everyone to think about this for a minute. This stuff about breakfast was a philosophy
fixed in stone. Now it’s….well….fixed in
wet cement. This pattern has played out
over and over again in the course of my life.
Take coffee. It caused and then
didn’t cause …..everything! They have
bounced back and forth on this stuff like a rubber ball in a lunatic
asylum, with the lunatics attempting to catch it. And now local, state and
federal government are attempting to determine what we should be ‘allowed’ to
eat. We have lost our minds!
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