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Breakfast-skipping teens weigh more

Posted: Mar 10th 2008 9:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, General Health, Healthy Kids

Check out this breakfast news: Teenagers who eat breakfast weigh less, exercise more, and eat a more healthful diet than their breakfast-skipping peers. An estimated 25 percent of children in the United States are breakfast skippers.

The more teens regularly eat breakfast, the lower their body mass index, according to a study of 2,216 adolescents in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Those who always skip breakfast tend to weigh about five pounds more than those who don't skip this meal.

Why is it better to eat a morning meal? Because the fuller the belly early in the day, the better control youngsters have over their appetites. Eating first thing in the day essentially prevents food binges later on.

Time for breakfast. A healthy breakfast, that is.

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