When done well, breakfast is still my favorite meal of the day. But this is worth noting. "Why should anyone try to thumb the scale for eating breakfast? Are these scientists taking money from Big Granola? For other tricky issues in nutrition—such as whether drinking diet soda makes you fat, or whether breast-feeding keeps your children thin—it’s hard to keep the science free of interest groups and ideology. When it comes to eating breakfast, though, there shouldn’t be much controversy. Bias on this issue wouldn’t seem to be inspired by the private sector or egged on by politicians. Instead, it could have developed naturally, from the overconfidence of scientists. “There’s a lot of scientific dogma in the field that has nothing to do with industry,” says Pereira. “People just want to be ‘right.’ It’s really, really a mess.” "Still, it might not be such a good idea to wait around for better evidence. Advising people to eat breakfast may not really help to keep you thin, but there isn’t any evidence that it makes you fat. It’s also possible (but by no means certain) that breakfast improves cognitive abilities and mood in kids and teenagers. So what’s the harm in trying, just in case it works?
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:36:45 +0000
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