The theory is that fat calories in the morning tend to speed your metabolism. Most caloric output comes from resting metabolism, not from exercise.
I don't know if it really works or not but it delays any craving for a snack until lunch, and that's a good thing.
You can justify anything diet and weight gain related that you want if you cite the right source.
"New evidence from our group, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that those assigned to eat breakfast used more energy through physical activity (in particular during the morning) than those fasting. "
"Contrary to popular belief, researchers now say breakfast doesn?t kickstart the metabolism and may not be the most important meal of the day. A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition had more than 300 overweight participants consume diets that included either eating or skipping breakfast. At the end of 16 weeks, dieters who ate breakfast lost no more weight than the breakfast skippers. "
Which one is right? Notice they both refer to the same journal although they don't cite an article specifically (it may even be the same article).
The argument that most calories are burned through base metabolism is not relevant to the issue. If you can burn 100 extra calories a day through exercise that is the same as boosting your base metabolism by
100 calories. One difference is you don't have to eat 100 extra calories to burn the extra 100 calories through exercise.-- Rick C
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