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Easy Weight Loss Trick: Eating a Big Breakfast may Burn More Calories

by Adeline Dorcas on February 20, 2020 at 4:23 PM
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Morning breakfast is the most healthy meal of the day. Eating a large breakfast in the morning can burn more calories and help you lose weight naturally.


Eating a big breakfast rather than a large dinner may prevent obesity and high blood sugar, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

‘Want to lose weight? Eating a bigger breakfast and lighter dinner may burn more calories and protect against obesity. So, hurry up, eat your morning breakfast like a king to stay slim and trim.’

Our body expends energy when we digest food for the absorption, digestion, transport and storage of nutrients. This process, known as diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT), is a measure of how well our metabolism is working, and can differ depending on mealtime.

"Our results show that a meal eaten for breakfast, regardless of the amount of calories it contains, creates twice as high diet-induced thermogenesis as the same meal consumed for dinner," said the study's corresponding author, Juliane Richter, M.Sc., Ph.D., of University of L�beck in Germany. "This finding is significant for all people as it underlines the value of eating enough at breakfast."

The research team conducted a three-day laboratory study of 16 men who consumed a low-calorie breakfast and high-calorie dinner, and vice versa in a second round. They found identical calorie consumption led to 2.5 times higher DIT in the morning than in the evening after high-calorie and low-calorie meals. The food-induced increase of blood sugar and insulin concentrations was diminished after breakfast compared with dinner. The results also show eating a low-calorie breakfast increased appetite, specifically for sweets.

"We recommend that patients with obesity as well as healthy people eat a large breakfast rather than a large dinner to reduce body weight and prevent metabolic diseases," Richter said.

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  1. People who eat a big breakfast may burn twice as many calories - (https:www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/people-who-eat-a-big-breakfast-may-burn-twice-as-many-calories)


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