New Study Says Breakfast Has No Effect on Weight Loss

For years, moms have been telling their kids that eating a hearty breakfast was one of the key factors to maintaining and even losing weight. A sentiment I've fought because for as long as I can remember, eating breakfast food in the morning has always made me sick and so as a kid I begrudgingly forced myself to eat every morning because my mom told me it was necessary to maintain a healthy weight in addition to helping to jump-start my brain (as far as we know the jump-starting part is still legit).

Even as an adult, my mom and doctors all told me breakfast was a must-have meal because it revved up metabolism, held off hunger, and would help me keep my weight in check.

Well, according to a new study, that’s all untrue.

Researchers studied overweight and obese adults who were trying to lose weight and found there was no difference between those who ate breakfast religiously and those who skipped it.

Common sense and simple math still rule at the end of the day though. If you burn more calories than you take in, day-after-day, you will lose weight, but now it doesn't seem to matter at which meals you consume those calories.

Now, this shouldn't be used by kids as an excuse to disobey their parents when they tell them to eat breakfast because as far as we still know-bodies need fuel to get going in the morning, especially bodies of kids heading off to school to learn. BUT- if you weren't telling your kids to eat breakfast in order to fuel their minds but rather to maintain a healthy weight, you'll have to take up your argument with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Obesity Research Center.