The great breakfast myth

• Autores: Dara Mohammadi
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3066, 2016, págs. 39-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Mohammadi investigates whether people have all been told that eating breakfast is a recipe for good health. The concept of a healthy breakfast was probably first introduced at the turn of the last century by John Harvey Kellogg to promote his new breakfast cereal. Despite these dubious beginnings, a body of research has since been published to support the idea. Studies show, for instance, that both adults and children who skip breakfast could end up at increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Other work found that eating breakfast cereals leads to a healthy BMI in adolescent girls and that teens who skip the meal are more likely to be overweight