Is is true that not having breakfast may cause obesity? Why?

Answer 1

Skipping breakfast makes you fat, plain and simple. I can’t tell you how many people I know who think it’s just fine and dandy to skip breakfast and other meals to help them lose weight. Well, the cold, hard fact is that skipping breakfast will help you lose weight—muscle weight and not fat weight.
So many people, especially women, don’t seem to care if it’s muscle they’re losing. They think it’s fine because they don’t want to look like guys anyway so who cares if you lose a little muscle. Well, ladies (and everyone else), here’s why you should care.

Muscle is metabolically the most active tissue in the body. Just to keep one pound of muscle alive—that means doing nothing but just keeping it alive—it takes about 50 calories per day. Fat requires a big fat goose egg. What? I’ll say that again. Fat requires zero calories per day!

Now, when you go longer then three hours without eating, your body goes into a catabolic state. I’ll talk more about this in other articles, by the way. When you go into a catabolic state, your body uses its own muscle tissue for fuel.

OK, let’s digress a bit and make a comparison. Let’s say we have two women both 5’6” tall. They are the same age and the same weight. However, one woman has 110 pounds of lean mass while the other only has 100. Now, they both weigh the same, remember that. First off, the woman who has more muscle mass probably wears a dress two sizes smaller than the other woman. Secondly, that same woman can eat about 500 calories more each day and maintain her weight!

Now tell me, ladies, what’s wrong with muscle? Guys, you already know you want to keep the muscle you have plus build on it. You just need to know how to do that right. So, the more muscle you have, the more you can eat. Why are you skipping breakfast again? Oh yeah, you wanted to lose weight. Hmmm…Let’s take this a bit further..

OK, so, you’ve started skipping breakfast. If you’ve started skipping breakfast, you probably have also stopped eating after a certain time in the evening. 6pm seems to be the “magic” hour for starting states of semi-starvation. That means from 6pm until, oh, say, 6am, your body is getting absolutely no fuel to run its activities. That’s twelve hours! Remember the three-hour deal and catabolism? Your body is eating itself just to stay alive.

Now, if you continue this, you will lose weight. However, you’re losing muscle mass. So, you’ve lost weight but you’ve also put your metabolism in the toilet! Why’s that? Food helps fuel your metabolism and keep it running on high! That’s right. You have to eat to lose fat! Shocker, huh?

So, once you’ve finally realized the error of your ways, you’re down maybe ten pounds, say eight of which are muscle. You’ve just cost your basal metabolic rate 400 calories a day! That’s a lot of food! For those 400 calories you’ve just cost yourself, you could have eaten 4 ounces of roasted, boneless, skinless chicken breast, 6 cups of lightly steamed broccoli and an orange. Wow!

You see, logically, it now makes sense to eat breakfast and every other meal for that matter, right? You always want your body to be a fat-burning machine and skipping meals turns your body into a fat-storing system. Skipping meals makes you fat. You don’t want that.

Is it breakfast-time where you are? If so, go eat! If it’s not, start planning your healthful breakfast for tomorrow morning.

Answer 2

It doesn't cause obesity.
If you eat breaksfast, you will be less hungry later in the day, then you won't over eat. Small meals keep you full. Going all day without food is draining to your body, and it's hard to not want a cheeseburger when you've been starving all day. Breakfast is way too important to skip. Wake up a few minutes earlier to have some cereal or toast. You'll feel much better!

Answer 3

here are the research from cancer.org:

"Spreading out the calories by eating frequently and not skipping meals helps stabilize insulin levels in the blood, and that, in turn, helps control hunger and how fat is deposited in the body.

Eating fewer, larger meals may cause insulin to spike, which could cause more blood sugar to be stored as fat.

Skipping breakfast was also associated with obesity. People who routinely skipped breakfast were more than four times as likely to be obese as those who ate breakfast regularly. "People who skip meals are more likely to overeat at another time," Ma said. Skipping a meal lowers blood sugar, which triggers hunger, he explained."

So it's better to have breakfast and not eating breakfast have a higher chance of being obese!

Answer 4

It has truth to it. Not all people who skip breakfast will be obese though. The thing is that eating breakfast gets your metabolism started for the day. That way you'll be burning more calories throughout the day. When you skip this important meal then your body takes more time to get itself going.

Answer 5

breakfast starts your metabolism off for the day, if you don't eat anything till about 10 or 11 am, your metabolism is shot by a good 15-20%. it is also proven that those who eat a balanced healthy breakfast, do not consume as much during the rest of the day. it makes sense when you think about it, if you were starving by the time you ate lunch, you would eat everything in sight, where as if you eat 6 smaller meals throughout the day, you never feel starving, and your body can work at maximum efficiency. and that all starts with eating breakfast!

one full of fiber or protien is great....egg white omelettes and veggies, or my fave is an apple cut up, with ff vanilla yogurt and dried cranberries.....yummy!

Answer 6

Yes. As soon as u wake...ur metabolism is really fast. and when there is no food...it slows down and store all the foods u eat. when there is nothing to eat...well when it come to lunch time...it will think that is the only meal it will have until like the next day so it goes into starving mode. and then when u have dinner...u still have ur lunch left in ur stomach cuz it isnt digested. plus no breakfast can also slow down ur energy and u might not wanna be physically active so that doesnt help much either.

Answer 7

Breakfast in the morning goves your metabolism a kick start.

And those who deprive themselves in the morning are more likely to over eat in the later hours of the day.

Hope I helped!

Answer 8

Because its the most important meal of the day! You've been fasting all night, so going a few more hours without eating will most likely leave you famished and weak by lunch and dinner. When you're that hungry you tend to overeat.

Answer 9

When you start your day your body starts to boost up the metabolism and is expecting a meal to feed it. If it gets no meal it slows down the metabolism and starts storing fat because it thinks there is a food drought.

Answer 10

i'm uncertain approximately metabolism, yet ingesting as quickly as you wke up will enable you to burn the potential from that nutrition in the process the day fairly than storing it, and having it turn to fat. i think of ingesting breakfast at that element is positive. while human beings consume in the previous they flow to sleep, for the reason that their physique isn't energetic after ingesting, the physique would not use the gasoline from the nutrition as immediately, permitting extra of it to be saved as fat.