About 1,007 boys and 1,215 girls of different races and economic standings from public schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, agreed to undergo the study.
The experts discovered that breakfast eating and the Body Mass Index (BMI) are directly related-which means that an adolescent taking breakfast more often has lower B.M.I.
Experts say it still remains a mystery why eating breakfast leads to lower unwanted pounds. The study however revealed that those who ate breakfast more frequently had more carbohydrate and fiber intakes, lower fat calories and exercised more often.
One of the co-authors of the study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, Mark A. Pereira told New York Times that a healthy breakfast would "promote healthy eating throughout the day and might help to prevent situations where you're grabbing fast food or vending machine food."
In a separate study early last year, Anne M. Fletcher, author of the "Weight Loss Confidential and a registered dietitian in Mankato, Minnesota, subjected 104 overweight teenagers and below, where all 41 boys and 63 girls had shown weight loss for more than two years.
Another study of Fletcher revealed that her 100 adult subjects had lost more than 30 pounds for more than three years.
Fletcher concluded from her surveys that the participants succeeded losing weight only after dealing with their unhealthy eating habits and inactive lifestyle. She further said that teenagers and adults alike must be genuinely ready to come to terms with their health problems if only to succeed and gain permanent weight loss.
