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Breakfast Not the Most
Important Meal A er All...
By Dr. Mercola
Contrary to popular belief, breakfast is not the most important meal of
the day. In fact, omitting breakfast, as part of an intermittent fasting
schedule, can have many important health benefits, from improving your
insulin/leptin sensitivity to helping your body more effectively burn fat for
fuel.
Longer bouts of fasting have also been shown to have potent health
benefits, including the regeneration of your immune system, as
demonstrated in recent research.
In the past, it was believed that skipping breakfast might hinder weight
loss, or even make you gain weight, but recent research demonstrates
there’s no truth to this theory.1 As noted by David Allison, senior
investigator of the featured study and director of the UAB Nutrition
Obesity Research Center:2
"The field of obesity and weight loss is full of commonly held beliefs
that have not been subjected to rigorous testing; we have now found that
one such belief does not seem to hold up when tested. This should be a
wake-up call for all of us to always ask for evidence about the
recommendations we hear so widely offered."
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