“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” This myth is pervasive in society.

Breakfast is perceived as healthy, even more important than other meals.

Even today’s official nutrition guidelines recommend that we eat breakfast.

It is claimed that breakfast helps us lose weight, and that skipping it can raise our risk of obesity.

This seems like a problem, because up to 25% of Americans regularly skip breakfast ( 1 ).

However, new high-quality studies have started questioning the universal advice that everyone should eat breakfast.

This article takes a detailed look at breakfast, and whether skipping it is really going to harm your health and make you fat.