Regarding breakfast too, studies follow one another but are not alike … This time, it is the University of Alabama in Birmingham (United States) which is closely interested in the first meal of the daytime. The researchers tried to answer the following question: Do you risk skipping breakfast more weight? And their answer is no.
This study (published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) obviously goes against recent work on the issue: in fact, we no longer count the articles and scientific publications that recall the importance of breakfast, in particular for the proper functioning of the cardiovascular system, to fight against diabetes and infertility, but also to prevent obesity and overweight.
Despite everything, researchers at the University of Alabama are critical of the results of previous studies: according to them, the experimental protocols were not respected, and the test samples were not sufficiently supplied … They therefore have decided to start over.
Everything and its opposite
To study the impact of breakfast on weight gain, they brought together 309 healthy, overweight or obese individuals and observed them for 16 consecutive weeks. The sample was divided into several groups: from one week to the next, some took a breakfast on getting out of bed and others, no.
Results ? After 16 weeks, each other’s weight losses had not been influenced by whether or not they had breakfast in the morning … “We must now confirm these results,” comments Emilie Dhurandhar, professor at the University of Alabama Department of Health and study author. Indeed, breakfast has no influence on weight gain, but still has an impact on appetite and metabolism. “
A study that leaves you perplexed: by dint of reading everything and its opposite on breakfast, what should we believe?
