Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal? (No — But What You Eat Still Matters)

Summary

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is **cereal-industry marketing, not physiology** — RCTs show skipping it doesn't cause weight gain (if anything, slightly the opposite) — but skipping isn't a health hack either, and *what* you eat genuinely matters: a protein/fat breakfast (eggs, fish, meat, Greek yoghurt) beats sugary fortified cereal for satiety and blood sugar, while whether you eat at all is optional and partly chronotype-dependent.