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Feel Free to Skip Breakfast Again and Again and Again
Appears no one even bothered to post the latest ridiculous study and resulting media articles on the Horrors of Skipping Breakfast, but The Skeptical Cardiologist and Peter Attia, MD critiqued it, so this is worth a post. 
The Skeptical Cardiologist tackles the "most important meal of the day"
by Anthony Pearson, MD
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June 12, 2019
It seems like every 2 years the Skeptical Cardiologist has to defend skipping breakfast.
I first described how irritating and puzzling I find the concept that skipping breakfast causes obesity and heart disease in a 2013 post entitled "Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day: feel free to skip it." When I'm irritated with a ridiculous concept I ask lots of questions:
-Why would I eat breakfast if I am not hungry in order to lose weight?
-What constitutes breakfast?
-Is it the first meal you eat after sleeping?
-If so, wouldn't any meal eaten after sleeping qualify even it is eaten in the afternoon?
-Is eating a donut first thing in the morning really healthier than eating nothing?
-Why would your first meal be more important than the last?
-Isn't it the content of what we eat that is important more than the timing?
Most of the studies on the proposed effect of breakfast on obesity (PEBO), I pointed out, are observational studies which cannot prove causality and the few, small prospective randomized studies don't clearly support the hypothesis.
I suggested that PEBO comes from the breakfast food and cereal industry and should be ignored.
Continues, including link to Dr. Attia's response
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