Complete weight loss by skipping breakfast. Whether it is an intermittent fasting that starts eating at noon, or an empty stomach training that starts after getting up, it is proving that you don’t necessarily get fat if you don’t eat breakfast.
Of course, the greater consensus is that for those who have “night cat physique” or have no breakfast habits, it may not be necessary to force breakfast to lose weight.
And “breakfast lovers” don’t need to be forced to fast when they are hungry, but should pay more attention to the nutrient balance of the ingredients. Compared with high-carbon diets such as steamed bread fritters and puffed cereal, choosing low-GI foods such as whole grain soy milk and eggs is actually more important than tangling breakfast.
The weight loss effect of eating breakfast is exaggerated
Before the weight loss effect of eating breakfast is exaggerated, there is a scientific conclusion that eating breakfast helps to lose weight.
In 2018, researchers from Purdue University published a summary conclusion related to breakfast weight loss based on 22 effective experiments. For example, 66% of experiments indicated that eating breakfast significantly reduced hunger throughout the day. At the same time, 43% of the studies found that eating breakfast can significantly reduce the level of ghrelin after a meal.
And more people expect breakfast to increase metabolism, which was also answered in this experiment. Only one experimental conclusion in the review pointed out that there will be an increase in basal metabolism after breakfast, but this phenomenon is limited to a shorter period of time.
But since then, the weight loss effect of eating breakfast has been exaggerated. After “don’t eat breakfast, it will lead to gallstones”, if you don’t eat breakfast, you will become fat.
The concept may have been first proposed by the American breakfast cereal brand “Kelloggs” in order to achieve promotion and publicity.
The survey found that the experimental research that promotes the benefits of breakfast is sponsored by brands such as Kellogg’s and Quaker. This is the same as Coca-Cola’s scientific experiment of “sugar is not the main cause of obesity”.
The driving of commercial interests has led to the subjectivity and one-sidedness of the experimental results.
Professor James Betts of the Department of Nutrition, University of Bath, University of Bath, UK, studied the experimental details of the breakfast health theory on the market and found that almost all the experiments are observational, lacking a control group and mechanism studies The conclusion is not reliable.
However, major cereal cereal brands continue to quote these in their advertising campaigns