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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A neighbor of mine told me he's trying to lose weight by eating only Special K cereal for breakfast and lunch. I assume he's eating a normal dinner. But virtually skipping those first two meals of the days just isn't going to work.

When you skip meals, your body thinks you're in famine mode, and it reacts by reducing your metabolism. A lower metabolism means slower weight loss. Instead of skipping meals, you should eat at least four times per day -- breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. Try not to leave more than three or four hours in between meals and snacks, and you'll find losing weight is not as hard as you'd imagined.

I know, it seems eating less would help you weigh less. But it doesn't. Consider this news a gift. You get to eat -- the healthy stuff, anyway -- and lose weight too. Is there anything better?

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