Various medical research findings are pointing to the perks of eating breakfast to lose more weight. As seen with many fad diets (Adkins’, South Beach, the Watermelon diet and others), consistent nutrition is the key to sustained weight loss.

It’s one of the reasons that breakfast has been found to be a valuable aspect of weight loss.

A study on weigh control was conducted at the University of Colorado. The finding depicted that more than 75 percent of dieters or individuals were able to successfully maintain weight loss by making breakfast a part of their daily diet.

Another clinical evaluation reported that consumption of cereal (either ready-to-eat or cooked) for breakfast was associated with substantially slighter body mass index than either eating meat and eggs or skipping breakfast, altogether. (Information provided by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

Another study has found a significant correlation between children, adolescents and senior citizens who consume breakfast. The findings strongly suggest that an increase in cognition and concentration are experienced from the consumption of an appropriate breakfast.

These clinical trials are posing new questions: as what is the appropriate breakfast? Is it bacon, eggs, pancakes, toast, French toast, ham or steak? In the opinions and studies of nutritional experts the appropriate breakfast includes any to all of the following components:

-Low-calories
-Fruit
-High-fiber
-Low-sugar
-Fortified cereals
-Skim milk

The benefits of the above recommendations serve several purposes: healthy, fast and tasty. Nonetheless, not everyone buys into the theory that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”

When breakfast is skipped it really defeats the purpose of weight loss. Essentially, several things occur when people skip breakfast. Primarily, there is a tendency to overeat during other meals. Secondly, the concentration is impaired.