Is it OK to skip breakfast?

Yes. There's no evidence that skipping will produce weight gain. From the NYT Health section.

Does Skipping Breakfast Cause Weight Gain?

The food industry has promoted this claim for decades to sell breakfast cereal. But rigorous scientific studies have found no evidence that it’s true.

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In the decades that followed, dozens of observational studies reported that breakfast eaters tended to be leaner. Though these studies could not show cause and effect, many health authorities and food companies asserted that they proved that eating breakfast protects against weight gain.

But experimental studies that randomly assigned people to eat or skip breakfast have found no such thing. One of the most recent, published in February, found no difference “in weight change and most health outcomes” between people assigned to eat breakfast for six weeks and those assigned to skip it.

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Dr. Betts said that unlike randomized trials, observational studies of breakfast consumption could be misleading. They show, for example, that people who eat breakfast also follow other behaviors associated with good health. They tend to drink and smoke less, consume less sugar, eat more fiber and exercise more than those who skip a morning meal.

“All we know from observational studies is that people who have breakfast are leaner,” he said. “But it may be other factors that are the reason.”

 

 

Comments

[Sweat]

I've known this for many decades. In fact, I liked the practice of skipping breakfast so much that I would often just go ahead and skip lunch too while I was at it !!!

- Sweat.....................