The Most Important Meal of the Day (for real!)
Minneapolis Saint Paul students are the star in a new study that shows American teenagers who skip breakfast are more likely to be obese than those who eat a morning meal.My mom is going to be super psyched that she’s been right about the importance of breakfast all of these years.
Apparently 2,216 students in Minneapolis and St. Paul middle and high schools completed diet and weight surveys from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2003 and 2004.According to a Bloomberg report:
“At first, girls were more likely than boys to skip breakfast. During the five years, the researchers found an almost 17 percent decrease in the number of boys who ate breakfast. At the end of the study, 18.9 percent of the boys missed the meal versus 13.8 percent of the girls… Teens that skipped the meal were five pounds heavier on average, ate less healthy during the day and exercised less frequently than those who ate breakfast, researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics. The study is the largest to follow the breakfast habits of teens over years and track whether they’ve become obese, researchers said.”
Of course, it doesn’t specify **what** these teens were eating, since Pop-Tarts and Mountain Dew eaten before 9 a.m. is technically breakfast. Tasty!
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Mountain Dew is grody to the max.