In Handy Tips, we find ways to improve your life and make it easier and explain why these tips work. Today, we will tell you why a hearty breakfast won’t save you from overeating.
How does it work?
As kids, we are told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, that it should be healthy and hearty, and that it should account for more than 25% of your daily intake of calories. People explain it by the fact that we need to refuel our energy and nutrients level that we lose while we sleep at night.
It has always been believed that breakfast has the most beneficial effects on lipids, glucose, and insulin levels in the blood, and it also helps to eat less at other meals.
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However, scientists from the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Zentrum für Ernährungsmedizin came to completely different conclusions. Their experiment involved 280 obese people and 100 normal-weight people. The subjects consumed an additional 400 calories at breakfast. The organizers of the study expected that a hearty breakfast would have a positive effect on body mass index. But the results showed the opposite: the participants ate lunch and dinner as densely as usual, which increased the total number of calories for the day and led to excess weight.
Many people think that a hearty breakfast is a double portion of scrambled eggs with bacon, a bagel, and a portion of pancakes with syrup. In fact, this is not a hearty breakfast; this is a large breakfast, which will eventually make up 60% of your daily intake of calories.
