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The claim that eating breakfast helps you lose weight did not survive randomized trials. Across 13 of them, breakfast skippers ended up 0.44 kg lighter, and breakfast eaters took in about 260 more calories a day. The trials were short and biased, so skipping is not proven harmless either. The country statistics tell the more interesting story: who skips breakfast tracks age, time and money far more than willpower.

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Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal? What the Trials Found, and Who Actually Skips It

Randomized trials did not back breakfast for weight loss: skippers were 0.44 kg lighter, eaters ate 260 more calories a day. Japan counts coffee as skipping.

Aug 23, 20267 min readUnited States, South Korea, Japan

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Country	Articles
United States	Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal? What the Trials Found, and Who Actually Skips It
South Korea	Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal? What the Trials Found, and Who Actually Skips It
Japan	Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal? What the Trials Found, and Who Actually Skips It