What makes breakfast the most important meal of the day?

No meal is any more important than any other. We should all be eating 4-6 small meals per day with healthy snacks between. It makes no sense to single out one meal and consider it more important than the rest when nutrition must be considered as a whole...the flow of nutrients throughout the body all day every day.

The myth that breakfast is singularly important probably comes form the fact that people used to tend to skip breakfast and opt for coffee and donuts instead. So, health agencies, in their quest to do right by the public, put extra emphasis on breakfast. That eventually turned into breakfast being considered super important.

I disagree about what doctors and dietitians supposedly claim. However, there is a distinct dietary advantage to feeding yourself when you're hungry and stopping as soon as you are no longer hungry. Keeping a smooth but minimal flow of food and nutrients through your GI tract will ensure you have optimal digestive satisfaction and appetite suppression with a minimal amount of food. So, all else equal, eating several small meals per day will help keep fat away. Eating haphazardly can result in gorging or over eating.

Good luck and good health!!

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For one, it gives your body energy and calories to burn. It promotes brain activity. People who don't eat breakfast are generally obese because they do not have any calories to burn at the beginning of the day, and a lot of time results in binging at the end of the day. Basically breakfast is important because your body needs calories to burn between breakfast and your next meal. I suggest getting cereal bars or granola bars to start your day if you don't have time. Very quick and easy.

It kick starts your metabolism and wakes your body up.