Is skipping breakfast better for your health? | Prof Tim Spector and Dr Sarah Berry

You might have heard the saying 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day'. But is that true? And is eating 2 meals a day actually better for your health?
Professor Tim Spector and Dr. Sarah Berry join Jonathan to explore the topic.
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[@lynnburridge5962]

I’ve skipped breakfast for the past year and have lost 14kg in weight, after 35 years of not finding a successful way of losing weight. Time restricted eating seems to have cracked for me!

[@gdwlaw5549]

Same for me at 57. Nothing seemed to work even though I do 5/6 hours sport every week. About 7 down and 10 to go.

[@magicknight8412]

Would that be simply down to no breakfast meaning less calories in the day? Are you eating the same amount for lunch and dinner?

[@ariadnaperez646]

Same. And I feel better. Not sure if that’s due to restricted eating or that I skip milky coffee and cereals! During the other meals, I eat the same. I even have more desserts than before… As I do intermittent fasting I also stopped sn acking after dinner. Took a bit of time to get used to this. But now it’s easy and it works for me.

[@davess61]

you must have been eating a serious breakfast! :O Well done on the weight loss.

[@annchong9701]

I have lost my stomach from just skipping breakfast & I start eating at 12 or 1 & stop by 7 pm. I wish I knew about IF before, losing the weight on your stomach doing intermittent was the easiest- I didn’t have do any stomach exercises! Secret is to drink lots of tea, water or coffee no sugar or cream of course to get over your hunger. It only takes a week or two to get accustomed to it. It is worth it! Thank you for helping everyone out there!

[@brandon3872]

I feel very lethargic and have brain fog if I don't eat breakfast, to the point that I can't function properly. As we've learnt from the gut microbiome, what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for everyone.

[@mnn8xy]

I was also feeling that way about breakfast but after I have started keto with intermittent fasting my morning cravings were gone. Rather than having breakfast I have coffee with mct oil and I think it has a more positive effect on my mood.

[@ZsuzsaKarolySmith]

It depends on so many factors! Someone who gets up early and has a physical job, will obviously need that first meal. I sometimes eat breakfast and sometimes don’t - depending on if I’m hungry or not. I try to avoid naked carbs though (like sugary cereals) as they will make me feel worse than if I hadn’t had breakfast! An egg on whole grain toast with half an avocado is always a good option to avoid a blood sugar crash a couple of hours later!

[@bantix9902]

I mean if you've been eating breakfast all your life and then you stop suddenly, then the body is probably going to respond to that. It certainly takes a while for the body to adjust. I've been drinking coffee and water in the morning for the past 3 weeks now and I got very hungry in the morning but now my body has now adjusted to the new condition. I also feel like I can do more work now in the morning because I feel more energetic (part of that is certainly the coffee). I usually start my eating cycle with a lunch around 2-3pm and then have a dinner later at like 8-9pm. I realized that I eat more for lunch and dinner so my calories are just distributed differently now. Also, I think I eat less sugary foods now because typically here in Germany we eat like sweet stuff in the morning and more healthy food at lunch and dinner. Another thing I like is that I can snack as much as I want between lunch and dinner. My crackpot recommendation is that if you want to maintain your weight or even lose some weight this is a good change, if you can implement it in a healthy way. I'd say always consult an expert and let them check you up every now and then. On the other hand, if you want to gain a lot of weight for muscle build up and so on, that's now harder, because your stomach can only take so much food at once. There is some science on this, that after 12-16 hours of fasting the body goes into a state of 'autophagy', which is regarded as benifical in some cases. Many cultures have a period of extended fasting like for example 'Ramadan' in Islam. Of course, this has to be studied more and long fasting periods have entirely different risks and benefits associated with it.

[@brandon3872]

@@bantix9902 Thanks, it might be something to do with the fact I have graves disease which causes an overactive thyroid, so an extremely fast metabolism, although I'm on medication and my thyroid level is in the normal range at the moment. My body's pretty messed up to be honest 😅

[@KarinKuiper]

I eat my dinner 'ridiculously late' per Professor Spector, which may be the reason I like to skip breakfast (except for black coffee, no sugar). I'm a two-meal person and don't snack unless I consciously try. I have a very sound sleep. No diet fits all.

[@robin231176]

You could skip dinner instead of breakfast, leaving plenty of time for digestion before going to bed.

[@PhilippeOrlando]

The latest studies, just find them, confirm that it's better to front load. Do IF but eat breakfast and have dinner around 5 and breakfast around 8 am

[@charlottehodgson5093]

We have our evening meal before 6pm every night and then don't eat anything until our breakfast at around 8/8:30am. Not really into snacking but if hungry between lunch and evening meal, will have a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit.

[@wonderwoman5528]

You need to let your gut rest at night and not have to digest a big meal. 12-16 hours will give your gut a break. I know it’s helped me a lot with diverticulitis as well as avoiding trigger foods.

[@fridgemagnet9831]

Poor breakfast went from one of the most important meal to the villan.

[@deerheart87]

With Tim most foods are the enemy

[@karenwedge605]

It was made out to be the most important meal by marketing from cereal companies. Sadly we bought it.

[@heredianna2496]

​@@karenwedge605And now the opposite is being made by many of the "health/gurus/influencers" business.

[@magicknight8412]

With Tim nigh on all foods are the enemy. @@deerheart87

[@ZsuzsaKarolySmith]

Rule of thumb: if you’re hungry, eat breakfast, if you’re not hungry skip it! Lots of people are not hungry first thing in the morning!

[@rahelapanzariu1528]

After 40 I can't eat diner, I can't sleep because i fell like food is still undigested in the stomac. Breakfast is a must have because how my digestion works 😅

[@archimedesbird3439]

I eat two meals a day - brunch and an evening dinner

[@magicknight8412]

brunch and dinner would suit me perfectly I think.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

Circadian rythm comes into play. If the study mentioned around 5:00 did not take that into account, it should. If you take early birds used to having their breakfast at 8 after they come back from their morning run and you switch them to the later schedule cold turkey, they will get ravenously hungry around 8 am. I was never hungry for breakfast because I always had to eat it during the time of "night" when my body really wanted to sleep instead. When I was a child, breakfast would sometimes come back up. I forced myself to eat breakfast for years, then switched to a mid-morning snack, to altogether skip it now that I am older. I don't wake up hungry. I easily get through mid-morning hunger pangs if they occur and have no trouble making it to lunch. I am a staunch believer in intermitent fasting. I am in good health, so 14 to 16 hours seems good and it's easy.

[@adamswift1747]

Snap! I used to feel sick as a child after forcing breakfast down. Ideally I have a 15-hour break from food and get hungry at around 11am. I prefer to exercise fasted in the mornings too.

[@gazza11907]

I personally cannot go without breakfast in the morning,usually after some exercise, I would not be able to function at work or commute without eating a breakfast.

[@Josh-ql3be]

@@gazza11907 Everyone's different and some people find it nigh on impossible to skip a morning meal, but there's definitely an element of training involved. You can build up to it, as the person above said. Try a lighter, mid morning snack and slowly ween yourself off it.

[@MrHanzklos]

Yes, I have tried skipping breakfast and different IF schedules for 3 years before I found that skipping dinner works great for me.

[@ZsuzsaKarolySmith]

@2:37 I don’t watch TV (we haven’t got a TV licence). What I do instead in the evenings, I get on my exercise bike and watch something on Netflix while I pedal away on the highest setting. Not spinning exactly, just slowly - I can do that for hours!

[@Josh-ql3be]

I've been intermittent fasting for a month now and I've lost nearly a stone in that time. I'm eating two meals a day and being much more conscious of what I'm eating. For lunch today at 1pm: a fried duck egg, saurkraut, 1 unpickled beetroot, 1 raw yellow pepper, musrooms in garlic butter, quarter of an avocado, seasalt, black pepper, chilli flakes...followed by a bowl of raspberries, cashew, walnuts and seeds in yoghurt and keffir. I'll have spaghetti puttanesca for tea and a glass or 2 of red wine. Last meal will be 6pm.

[@ndi5670]

Spain also has a siesta time every day. At least in Sevilla. 2:30pm-5:30pm or 1:30pm-6:00pm.

[@petramaas8574]

How about eating only when you are hungry and eating only healthy meals and snacks? I think it is far better to find your own rythm than to eat because someone tells you when to eat.

[@--Snowy--]

Well said.

[@cameronsidhu5711]

I think part of what they’re saying is that if you change the times at which you eat, your appetite might also change, so could be worth giving it a go if you wake up really hungry etc.

[@sheldevsim]

Eating when you see hungry may not be the best option. Carbs will expedite the hunger rush so you end up eating more than you really should

[@petramaas8574]

@@sheldevsim That's why you need to eat healthy food. The recommended amount of carbohydrates is indeed not healthy.

[@heredianna2496]

That's what I do, and it has always worked for me. No yo yo diet, stable weight for years, no stressing about food, no caring about the last "tend" at 40 now... Actually if people would look around that is what most people who eat healthy and have a healthy lifestyle (not obsessive in one way or the other) do. I listen to nutritional information just to be aware of what is said but I never changed my habits when earing small portions several time a day was the thing 10 years ago, never cared about the alkaline diet which is probably the most stupid diet ever, never become vegan because I need enough iron to be healthy and at the same time I probably eat more real vegetables than most vegans out there lol.... Focusing on whole food, low sugar intake, making sure to have veggies/fruits portion everyday and eating when you're hungry is all you need to focus on. Then how often you eat when you eat is up to the individual and we live in a real world so lifestyle/work/family situation can also highly impact when you can or may choose to eat.

[@andrewnorris5415]

Like David Sinclair, I find it so much easier to skip breakfast to get my fasting window. Some people say they find it the other way around.

[@boxerfencer]

Getting your fasting window, is simply getting your caloric restriction.

[@ekcs3941]

I would love to know if this is different for women, different times of month = different energy requirements. Not to mention pregnancy, breast feeding, menopause etc

[@jillmartin3951]

Post menopause, I do not eat until midday even on gym days. I've stopped eating by 6.30pm. Cutting out UPF I am seldom hungry, never ravenous. If I eat breakfast I am hungry all day. I have lost around 30lb and although I am still obese I am steadily going in the right direction. If I had followed the NHS Eatwell plate I would never have lost any weight.

[@ekcs3941]

@@jillmartin3951 your metabolism definitely changes after menopause. I am currently breast feeding a very hungry baby, so I am hungry all the time and I loosing lots of weight, but I actually am not keen to loose much more. So I think I need to eat more energy dense foods!

[@RC-dx6vu]

I no longer know who or what to believe, since other respectable professionals say the exact opposite.

[@charflorida5433]

Yes, I skip breakfast and lunch most days, eat a very healthy 3 course dinner, lost 30 pounds, cured my insulin resistence in 6 months.

[@boxerfencer]

What you're doing is caloric restriction strategy. Eating less in each meal will do the same.

[@longevitycoach1573]

If you are eating plants, so, you need to eat as less as possible but if you eat meat only , as I do, you don’t need it.

[@boxerfencer]

@@longevitycoach1573 depends on how much fat comes along with the meat. As far as body composition goals, it depends on how far off you are, because eventually you'll stop recomping if youre no longer in a caloric deficit.

[@jillmartin3951]

My insulin resistance is improving since I started fasting for at least 18hrs per day, hoping to do as you are eventually and having one big meal per day. Several smaller meals throughout the day just keep me in a state of permanent hunger, one big fill-up keeps me saited for at least 18hours. I used to do this years ago and never had a weight problem but was told that I was harming myself not eating breakfast. I was young and foolish believing that drivel. Well, I have been obese for decades and am finally losing weight and feeling much better. I wish I'd told the calorie counting low fat guru's to do one. If one meal a day suits you, don't mess with a winning formula.

[@boxerfencer]

@@jillmartin3951 one meal a day? Yes, what ever works for you but holy crap! That's extreme. How about when you settle into healthy bodyweight with one meal a day, you count those calories you eat in one meal, and spread that out into how ever meals you can and still feet satiated, without regard to things being low fat or low carbs or whatever is trendy, and see if that works too.

[@rebecae7351]

I to point out that in Spain we do have breakfast and we enjoy it a lot!

[@stevelanghorn1407]

All very interesting, but what about the many people like myself who do physically demanding manual work every day? Farmers, builders, foresters, gardeners, etc etc. Are we supposed to skip breakfast and run out of steam half way through the morning?

[@moog5260]

I would far prefer to skip /tea/dinner/supper if I had hard physical activity early in the day

[@BigSlimyBlob]

If you often eat carbs, it could be difficult. You'd feel exhausted and weak and terrible. If you're doing keto, though... you wouldn't "run out of steam".

[@stevelanghorn1407]

👍Thanks. Managed to cut out sugar (almost!). Love nice bread, but I’ve cut down on that quite a bit too…so I’m getting there slowly!@@BigSlimyBlob

[@mastandstars5869]

I didn’t catch what Tim was trying to say. I think the clip is cut short & missing context.

[@ZsuzsaKarolySmith]

It also depends on what you eat for breakfast. Avoid foods that spike your blood sugar first thing in the morning, otherwise you will be on a glucose roller coaster all day!

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Exactly. This is why they've been pushing sugar (toast, cereal, waffles and pancakes, jam and orange juice, etc) for breakfast and insisting that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day", you're going to have to keep snacking all day just to avoid withdrawal. More money for the food industry, more money for the pharmaceutical industry. If you're healthy you can easily skip breakfast, and if you eat it, you might want to eat healthy things, like eggs and bacon (assuming you can find bacon with no added sugar).

[@Maclaren79]

As type one diabetic I find delaying not skipping breakfast helps prevent any early morning spikes in my sugar level, I also feel less lethargic in the morning if I delay breakfast a few hours

[@jezalb2710]

I am not diabetic and also find that delaying breakfast makes me feel less lethargic

[@boxerfencer]

​@@jezalb2710try eating less carbs and more protein and fat at breakfast.

[@jezalb2710]

@@boxerfencer no need

[@boxerfencer]

I'm not diabetic but i understand glucose spikes are highly correlated with what you've had the night before, with a high fat meal being more beneficial the morning after, as opposed to a high carb meal. And if you have a high protein serving with that meal, I'm sure that'll help even more, since protein helps stabilize blood glucose. So I don't see starving yourself as a valid first recourse method for glucose regulation, when manipulating macros, not starving, will work.

[@boxerfencer]

@@jezalb2710 no need to what?

[@littlevoice_11]

N.B. snacks can be liquid too! Milky or sugar drinks are equally if not worse than a biscuit. People often overlook the early morning latte or late night hot chocolate when they track their snacking

[@magicknight8412]

If I eat late I certainly do not feel hungry in the morning at all and don't want breakfast. I can skip breakfast anytime and don't feel the need for it.

[@workinprogresssince1974]

I've noticed that the earlier I stop eating in the day, the less hungry I am the next morning. I try to intermittent fast between 6pm and 11am and have done this for years now. Of course, the nights are drawing in, it's cold and I'm really struggling. Sugar now seems to be high on my agenda. Is there anything I can do to mitigate this beyond getting myself an SAD light? I work from home and the struggle to keep out the kitchen is real.

[@tikaanipippin]

What;s wrong with SAD lights? just get someone to rip out the picture imaging part of your TV and you have a SAD light without all the accompanying misery of 2020s living, as long as you choose not to listen to all the hype too; I bet you will get a better night's sleep too!

[@workinprogresssince1974]

@@tikaanipippin There is nothing wrong with SAD lights beyond the price. I can't afford one, simply.

[@yvonne3903]

Vitamin D

[@ingridmeacham4453]

Dr. Longo recommend don't skip breakfast, fasting 12-14 hours, not longer than that... I am agreeing most of his science based diet, including FMD ( actually 8 pillows not just science), but I am struggling to believe in breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I do 16 -18 hr fasting, breakfast( low carb, 30 grams protein, most plants) is at 11-noon. 2 meals a day. Dinner before 5 pm. No snacks after... But my morning blood sugar has not been improving, at 103 -110. I know is a dawn phenomena. But how do you improve ? Any advice ??

[@stephenhann1982]

Isn't breakfast the first meal one eats after getting up? Not having breakfast would mean not eating anything again.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

Very good point. I think breakfast is tied to an absolute time of day, from early to mid morning. If your first meal is around noon or in the early afternoon, it's lunch, because most are having their second meal of the day by then. This is all very early bird centric.

[@Nick-kb9vd]

It must depend on what enegy you are expending. If im off to do some physical work in the morning...iwill need breakfast.

[@moog5260]

yes being sedentary or very low intensity activity is easy to do while fasted or fasting but anything more intense can be very uncomfortable

[@yvonne3903]

When I was younger and when doing hard physical work, it was almost impossible if my stomach was full it needed to be empty or I would 🤮

[@miketranfaglia3986]

I would suggest that the "Mediterranean Diet" is as much about timing as it is about content.

[@user-wl3cm7re8f]

I did intermittent fasting for 7 years and ended up with anxiety and sleep issues . I am not sure it works for females the same as males

[@conradandrew825]

What impact does that have on muscle growth though? Fasting tends to discourage hypertrophy, and gaining muscle is one of the best things you can do for your body.

[@bantix9902]

Fasting does eat away at the muscles, but that really depends on how long the fast is. There are also benefits to fasting like 'autophagy'. Idk if it will kill your gains, but it certainly will slow them down. But when you gain muscle you also gain fat, so there's usually a cutting phase after the bulking phase.

[@BigSlimyBlob]

This isn't fasting, it's just having a smaller eating window. I eat once a day and I never fast. Even if I did fast (which I did at some point in my life, though only short ones, never more than 5 days), it wouldn't eat my muscles because I'm fat-adapted. If you're not fat-adapted and go out of your way to delay ketosis, then yes, you're going to lose a lot of muscle. Don't do that.

[@IvyRoad]

Why did that cut off? Where can I watch the full conversation?

[@Bracebarian]

Yep, always cup of tea and 2 chunks of dark chocolate when we watch goggle box.

[@YamatoForever]

I saw on youtube that skipping breakfast resulted in higher chances for all cause mortality. Is this true?

[@ef9183]

But what about skipping supper instead? Wouldn't that be the healthiest because you have a long fasting window, but also early in the day, which is more in line with our circadian rhythm

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

That depends on your circadian rythm. I am often still asleep around breakfast time, but am active until late at night. If I skipped supper, I would need to snack a lot to get through my evening. I think it's good to do what fits your circadian rythm. Have the first meal 2 or 3 hours after you wake up, and the last meal 2 or 3 hours before you go to bed.

[@moog5260]

if it works for you go for it. I find it can disturb sleep but there could be benefits over early time restricted fasting

[@_daniels]

Coffee (black) is a pretty big factor because we tend to drink it the morning. It can suppress appetite and make it fairly easy to skip breakfast. Coffee allowed me to push to those 16h+ fasting windows. I rarely eat breakfast now, with or without coffee. Only days I am hungry in the morning: the previous day was either severely calorie deficient or carb heavy.

[@lynchs2441]

That's what I do. My eating window is 8-16. So I'm going to bed after six or seven hours fasting. No hunger at all, empty stomach and sleep like a baby. But what I see around me is that people prefer evening meal as it's mostly time when family get together or they go out with friends.

[@ef9183]

@@lynchs2441 that's cool to hear that it works for you. It's true that socializing is easier when eating later, I was just wondering from a purely health standpoint. Like that Bryan Johnson guy is optimizing for longevity and chooses an early feeding window

[@dukeofaaghisle7324]

Breakfast is NOT the issue. I have never had a weight problem, am fit and in good general health. I have a healthy breakfast after a brisk walk and about 13h after finishing my evening meal. I very rarely snack in the evenings, and then only very lightly (e.g. 2 squares chocolate). Breakfast is home-made (sometimes bircher) muesli with plenty of fibre, nuts, seeds, kefir yoghurt and unsweetened home-made fruit compote - packed with prebiotics and probiotics. Lunch is really just a snack - soup or a little salad. You’re not going to persuade me to skip breakfast - it’s the best meal of the day!

[@FractalZero]

how you gonna come on to an evidence-based channel with world-leading experts discussing an issue and leave a contrary spurious anecdote with such conviction

[@dukeofaaghisle7324]

@@FractalZero The title is a question, not a statement. My take-away from the video is that the important issue is intermittent fasting. Skipping breakfast is fine if you eat late and go to bed late. What is more, we are all different - ZOE emphasises ‘personalised nutrition’.

[@AnotherproblemOn]

Hello ! I had a question : do ADHD drugs stop benefits provided by fasting? I have both IBS and ADHD. Thus i try to do intermittent fasting + eat fermented food+fiber ; but in the morning i have to take ADHD drug. Does it interfere in my healing process through stopping fasting benefits at the microbiot level? (I know it doesn't stop some fasting benefits related to other places but microbiot, but microbiot fasting kind of stand on it's own. so can it be stopped when glucose fasting isn't, or when autophagy isn't for long term fasting, for example? Hope i'm clear).

[@sharinaross1865]

I feel so much better eating 2MAD with an optional snack if hungry. A meal in the AM. A meal in the PM.

[@janeknight3597]

That would explain why those of us who did late night shifts tend to get T2 diabetes. I wonder if one of the big supermarkets would take part in a trial?

[@heredianna2496]

But do people working the same also had in the past (40+ years from now) T2 diabetes at the same rate.... No. So the quality of food you found always seem to be the main culprit. And I understand that founding quality food at 2am is more complicated than at 1pm.

[@fruz1378]

Regarding snacking late going against "your clock" ... well, about a third of the humanity are the late type that go to bed later and are more efficient overall at whatever they are doing during the evening. So no everybody has the same "clock" to begin with, you would need to consider those factors for it to be really relevant I think. Personally, I often eat even dinner past 10 pm, and I never feel very hungry in the morning .... although I force myself to eat if I want to gain weight, so I really cannot relate to this piece of information.

[@reginald2004]

Was this about skipping breakfast or snacking?

[@evedutton3583]

Will skiping breakfast helpbwith pre-dibetes ?

[@warrenrae32]

How about eat 3 square meals and don’t eat after 5 . I’ve lost 5 kilos over last year simply not eating after dinner which turns out to be a 15/9 fast.

[@NP-bm5qu]

Why has this interview cut off mid sentence

[@bettyswallocks6411]

How does shift work affect this?

[@anoshya]

Many people in famine ridden countries skip meals for days.

[@claymor8241]

There’s a bit of the ‘start with a proposition then look for the evidence’ here.

[@zoomankat]

My Son tried this Idiocy for a few weeks and ended up one day fainting in front of incoming traffic!!

[@thereignofthezero225]

I eat breakfast twice

[@angiedodd3016]

So is it better to skip breakfast asyou are waffling !!

[@carolynwestlake7670]

I don’t understand.some countries in Europe eat late🤔

[@FractalZero]

there's an unresolved conflict here - Dr Berry is insistent that timing trumps quality and so late==bad, whereas Spector counters that the heralded mediterraneans can eat late because they don't have breakfast: which is it?

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Having a smaller eating window is better, and eating less than 3 hours before sleep is bad. From there people should easily be able to find an eating window that works for them.

[@cristofacar]

Sarah, why do you feel the need to hide behind a ludicrous large microphone when a tiny lapel mic provides most broadcasters with excellent sound quality?!

[@adamswift1747]

Super interesting. Dark chocolate - heavy metals?!? It would be really useful to have more information and more 3rd party testing done on these foods, which can be really good for us if they are unadulterated.

[@adamswift1747]

@@chrisgale5634 we can eat what we like. We have never had so much choice. But the world is polluted. So smart choices can make a difference. Such as organic oats to avoid eating large amounts of glyphosate in inorganic. Lowering our intake of saturated fats which cause inflammation. Increasing fibre which is anti inflammatory. Eating real, rather than super-processed foods.

[@im2old4this2]

Are Tim Spector and Sarah Berry disagreeing about thie topic? It seems like Dr. Berry is citing a study favoring an earlier eating window and Professor Spector is saying it doesn't matter or may even be beneficial to skip breakfast.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

Sarah Berry is citing a study that is incomplete. They failed to select for circadian rhythms. What they describe applies to the majority (early risers), but not everyone. Maybe Tim is a late riser. I think the point is to have a fasting window. First meal 2 or 3 hours after one wakes up. For many, that's in the morning and will be breakfast. For others it's mid day and it will be lunch. Last meal 2 or 3 hours before going to bed. An early (US/UK) or later (South Europe) dinner.

[@Off_the_clock_astrophysicist]

@@chrisgale5634 I pack a light breakfast and have that during the coffee break or at my desk mid-morning. I am rushed and not hungry in the morning.

[@duarteconchinhas]

Confusing correlation with “causation” please show me some good rcts or meta analysis supporting the claim of skipping breakfast For every study you find regarding health improvements and skipping breakfast, you can find double the amount saying otherwise. 😅

[@benjames77bd]

Love her blouse…

[@animal9370]

📢Don't skip Breakfast!!! Dr. Valter Longo.

[@glynwatkins7140]

She sounds the same as Tim

[@MikeFrame]

Cortisol not considered? Define "health"

[@yvonne3903]

Nor insulin, leptin, ghrelin, growth hormone

[@mikedonnarumma5337]

johnathan , its not about you,

[@futsuu]

Wow, thanks, I trust TV doctors!! TV DOCTORS! WHOOPIE!

[@MissLittleTee]

I must be Spanish 😅

[@ricksb5]

You have to be careful talking about skipping meals, especially for people with eating disorders.

[@bantix9902]

Yes, someone with an eating disorder should not do stuff like this without consulting with a doctor.

[@ceresida]

This goes prof Valter Longo’s latest claims about breakfast

[@doddsalfa]

Unfortunately outdated information

[@acmaa766]

Ok, we go for less eating and more work 😢 excuse me, this doesn't like very nice