Interestingly enough studies show that kids who skipped breakfast are tardy and absent from school more often than children who ate breakfast on a regular basis. This could easily be to parenting and not breakfast as a meal. Breakfast should not be passed over to children though because their growing bodies and developing brains need regular refueling often, from food. This also means that they shouldn’t skip lunch or dinner in that regard.
For adults new research, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, finds that normal-weight breakfast eaters also aren’t necessarily any better off than breakfast skippers, at least metabolically speaking.
This combats conventional wisdom that people who don’t eat breakfast have slower metabolisms than individuals who do. The only discernible difference was that breakfast skippers ate fewer total calories over the course of the day, which counters the image of the breakfast skipper binging, later on, to make up for the loss. The downside was that they did burn fewer calories over the course of a day. Meanwhile, breakfast eaters were more active in the morning, but this mainly offset the extra calories they’d consumed for breakfast. *Other studies show that weight management can be equally effective without breakfast