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Eat the first meal and keep the kilos off, says diet study
5:00AM Wednesday March 05, 2008
Teenagers who eat breakfast tend to weigh less, exercise more and eat a more healthful diet than their breakfast-skipping peers, US researchers have found.
The study involved 2216 adolescents in the Minneapolis-St Paul area of Minnesota whose eating patterns, weight and other lifestyle issues were tracked for five years. They were just under 15 years old when they entered the study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics.
The more regularly the teens ate breakfast, the lower their body mass index was. BMI is a measure of body weight relative to height. Those who always skipped breakfast on average weighed about 2.3kg more than their peers who ate the meal every day. |
