The benefits of a hearty breakfast have been exaggerated.

Nutritionists and healthy eating adherents have been tirelessly repeating over the years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and you need to eat in the morning as much as possible to recharge your batteries and avoid overeating throughout the day. However, new work by Australian nutritionists casts doubt on this claim.

The study itself, which consisted of 13 steps, turned out to be very simple but extremely effective. At each stage, independent groups of people skipped breakfast, while others, on the contrary, received abundant morning meals. Then they went about their business with one task - to count the amount of food eaten during the whole day. As it turned out, the well-fed participants in the experiment ate an average of 260 calories more per day during the day than those who did not eat breakfast. There was no difference in the lack of appetite depending on the amount of food eaten in the morning. Interestingly, the subjects who skipped breakfast in the morning were most likely to lose weight faster.

According to the results of their work, experts note that the morning meal does not play a large role in the distribution of energy or weight loss. According to them, each person is individual, and if after waking up you are too lazy to cook and/or do not want to have a hearty breakfast, this means that your body simply does not need it.