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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Researchers doubt breakfast’s value for weight loss

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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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