Tag Archive for: breakfast

Ten O’Clock Zombie

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The second tip of the week leading up to The 6th Super Bowl Webinar on Sunday is something I think we’ve all experienced at some time. You eat a carbohydrate-based breakfast before work—cereal and milk, bagel and cream cheese, even one of those breakfast sandwiches you can now buy all day long. Somewhere between 10 and 10:30 a.m., your head drifts toward your chest and you could go to sleep. Just like a zombie, you cannot function. You’re in what some people call a carb coma.

The obvious solution is to restrict those carbohydrates . . .

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Breakfast and Weight Loss, Part 2

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Today we’re going to review the second study that reported eating breakfast may have no relationship to whether you’re overweight. This approach is radically different from the study I talked about on Tuesday. The approach in this study was to examine many variables related to metabolic rate, activity, and measure of fat and sugar metabolism (1). The goal was to answer the question whether breakfast “jumpstarts” metabolism, therefore assisting people to lose weight.

Researchers divided 33 normal-weight men and women into two groups. One group skipped breakfast entirely and didn’t eat until after noon. The other . . .

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Breakfast and Weight Loss

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Two recent studies examined the importance of breakfast and weight loss. The research question is simple: Does eating breakfast help you get to and attain a healthy weight?

Let’s take a look at the first study (1). Researchers in five cities screened 746 people. Of those, 309 overweight people were then randomly assigned to one of three groups; they were then further subdivided into to those who typically ate breakfast and those who were breakfast skippers. All subjects were given a pamphlet called "Let’s Eat for the Health of It" that talked about healthier eating (2). The researchers . . .

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