Breakfast - Still the Most Important Meal of the Day

There are so many people claiming to have the "right" way to eat - and usually these ideas vary greatly!  Now, the people in the "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a price, and dinner like a pauper" camp have a little bit of science to back them up.

A study done in Tel Aviv compared the effects on blood sugar of a high-energy breakfast/ low-energy dinner versus a low-energy breakfast/ high-energy dinner meal plan.  In the breakfast-focused meal plan, participants consumed 704 Calories at breakfast and 205 Calories at dinner.  For the dinner-focused meal plan, those were reversed (205 Calories at breakfast and 704 Calories at dinner).  Both meal plans consumed 603 Calories at lunch.

This small study of adults (aged 30-70) with type 2 diabetes showed that the higher calorie breakfast plan resulted in lower blood glucose levels for the entire day than did the higher calorie dinner meal plan.