Skipping breakfast may not change how much food a kid eats during the rest of the day, suggests a new study.
But missing the morning meal still carries consequences, the researchers caution.
Some evidence has suggested that the increasingly common practice of skipping breakfast could lead kids to overeat at later meals, and eventually pack on extra pounds. Yet few studies have rigorously tested whether that's what really happens, lead researcher Tanja Kral of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, told Reuters Health in an e-mail.
Kral and her colleagues set out to assess the effect of skipping breakfast on appetite and total calories consumed during the rest of the day among 21 kids between the ages of 8 and 10, most of them regular breakfast eaters.
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