Eat breakfast to lose weight
Did you skip breakfast this morning? Vonda Wright, MD, reveals an important weight-loss strategy: Always eat breakfast to tame the hunger hormone ghrelin and control appetite.
Transcript
Hi, Dr. Wright here with a smart tip to help you slim down.
When it comes to losing weight, it's tempting to skip breakfast. Seems logical, put less food in your belly
and it will shrink, right? Wrong. Research shows that cutting your morning meal
is bad news for your waistline. It actually turns down your calorie burning and turns up your appetite for the rest of the day,
so much so that breakfast skippers are twice as likely as breakfast eaters to pack on pounds.
It may be because breakfast skippers are short on energy so they move less and burn fewer calories.
Plus, blood levels of ghrelin, a hunger-causing hormone, shoot up when the belly is empty.
And you know what happens then. Hunger clouds your judgment and sends you running for a burrito grande or a monster-sized cookie
later in the day. So follow your mom's advice and always eat breakfast. You'll look better and feel better if you do.
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