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Title: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: loco on July 31, 2013, 06:26:06 AM
"A Cornell University study that found skipping breakfast might be a good diet option because it leads to lower calorie consumption was released this week, days after another report said skipping breakfast may increase the risk of heart disease. Cornell professor and study author David Levitsky said he is very concerned that nutrition experts are putting out contradictory dietary messages, but added that a deeper analysis of both studies may show there is no conflict at all."

Skipping breakfast might do a dieter good, scientists say

By Mary MacVean
July 25, 2013, 3:32 p.m.

Earlier this week, researchers reported that skipping breakfast was linked to heart disease. A few days later comes word that skipping breakfast could be a good weight-loss strategy because people don’t make up for all those calories later in the day.

Should we tear our hair out in frustration? Or cozy up to the scrambled eggs?

“I’m very concerned about that. We in nutrition seem to put out contradictory diet messages,” said David Levitsky, a Cornell professor of nutritional sciences and psychology and the senior author of the breakfast and calories study.

His work, published in the July issue of the journal Physiology and Behavior, suggests that people trying to lose weight might find skipping breakfast a few times a week a reasonable strategy.

It’s common belief that people who skip breakfast overeat later in the day. But that’s “based on a myth, not on hard data,” Levitsky said by phone. It’s hard to measure what people eat because memories are faulty and people don’t do a great job at estimating amounts.

So the Cornell researchers had volunteers, students who did not know the real point of the study, either eat or skip breakfast in their food lab, and they measured what those people ate the rest of the day. By the end of the day, those who went without breakfast had eaten an average of 408 fewer calories.

“If you skip breakfast, you may be hungrier, but you won’t eat enough calories to make up for the lost breakfast,” Levitsky said in a statement.

And that’s important in a society trying to fight an obesity epidemic, he said.

“Undoubtedly the biggest medical problem we have is related to weight,” Levitsky said. “What we have to learn how to do is to eat less. This is a message that the food industry does not want to hear and they are trying all kids of things to get around this.”

What about people who won the weight battle – keeping off at least 30 pounds for a year or more -- and are part of the National Weight Control Registry? They eat breakfast.

“You’re talking about the exceptions,” Levitsky said. Those people are not like most people: They are more health-conscious, they exercise more, they’re extraordinarily watchful over what they eat. “It’s dangerous to extrapolate from them,” he said.

In another study, released Monday in the journal Circulation, researchers in Boston found that men who skipped breakfast had a 27% higher risk of coronary heart disease than men who ate breakfast. The researchers also found, using a large ongoing study of mostly white men, that those who ate late at night had a 55% higher risk of coronary heart disease.

Snacking and skipping breakfast are common among Americans, the researchers said.

So does that mean we’ll weigh less when we get coronary heart disease? No, Levitksy said. If you dig deep into both studies, he said, there may be no contradiction. Larger people are more likely to skip breakfast, “and we know larger people have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease,” he said. So the results could be related to the person’s overall condition.

Levitsky does not eat breakfast but said, “Don’t take away my coffee.”

Take that Elmo!

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sn-skipping-breakfast-20130725,0,2383502.story
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: trengrowth on August 21, 2013, 07:27:11 AM
We still need a good insulin spike in the morning... We are bodybuilder...
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: loco on August 21, 2013, 07:52:11 AM
We still need a good insulin spike in the morning... We are bodybuilder...

It works even better after a morning workout.
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: trengrowth on August 21, 2013, 08:03:15 AM
Good point... What are your thoughts on using Karbolyn for a morning workout?
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: loco on August 23, 2013, 10:08:57 AM
Good point... What are your thoughts on using Karbolyn for a morning workout?

I don't use Karbolyn. 
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: trengrowth on August 23, 2013, 11:13:06 AM
According to David Zinkzenco

Those who do not eat breakfast are 450% more likely to be obese...
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: benchmstr on September 24, 2013, 01:35:21 PM
i tried to whole intermittent fasting thing for 6 months....the results were awesome..i recommend it.

anymore though i adopted a different diet

breakfast=protein only..powder, beef or chicken...doesn't matter
lunch=beef or chicken and vegetables...and usually a shake too
dinner=beef or chicken with a carb

i did the whole 6 meals a day shit for years....turns out that all of its complete bullshit...like everything else...all moderation

bench
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: Dicki_Nurmom on September 29, 2013, 01:42:16 PM
all structured meals were created by food companies to sell food

eat if you need to, otherwise don't
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: Straw Man on September 29, 2013, 03:03:24 PM
i tried to whole intermittent fasting thing for 6 months....the results were awesome..i recommend it.

anymore though i adopted a different diet

breakfast=protein only..powder, beef or chicken...doesn't matter
lunch=beef or chicken and vegetables...and usually a shake too
dinner=beef or chicken with a carb

i did the whole 6 meals a day shit for years....turns out that all of its complete bullshit...like everything else...all moderation

bench

what was your fasting period during the 24 hour day?
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: jadenmiller on October 02, 2013, 09:18:26 PM
i tried to whole intermittent fasting thing for 6 months....the results were awesome..i recommend it.

anymore though i adopted a different diet

breakfast=protein only..powder, beef or chicken...doesn't matter
lunch=beef or chicken and vegetables...and usually a shake too
dinner=beef or chicken with a carb

i did the whole 6 meals a day shit for years....turns out that all of its complete bullshit...like everything else...all moderation

bench

I am totally agree with you, protein in breakfast is best option, which keeps you full and full of energy whole day.
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: benchmstr on October 04, 2013, 11:07:49 PM
what was your fasting period during the 24 hour day?
I usually started the fast at 2 am then fasted for 16 hours...then gave myself a 8 hour window to eat...only 6 hours on non training days though

Bench
Title: Re: Breakfast studies send conflicting messages to consumers
Post by: benchmstr on October 04, 2013, 11:09:38 PM
I am totally agree with you, protein in breakfast is best option, which keeps you full and full of energy whole day.
And let's be honest....most people don't need the fucking carbs anyways..much less as soon as they open their eyes in the morning

Bench