05 Nov 2014 Breakfast Like a King and Dinner Like a Pauper
Question of the day: is there any truth to the old adage “Eat Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Lord, Dinner like a pauper”?
The Science
It turns out that a study published in the journal Obesity in 2014 found that eating your largest meal at breakfast may result in significantly greater weight loss in dieters.
The study followed 93 overweight women who were prescribed a 1400 calorie diet. Those who ate 700 of those calories for breakfast and a light dinner of only 200 calories lost more than twice as much weight as the women who, like many of us had the reverse calorie pattern.
In addition to greater weight loss, those who ate more in the morning felt less hungry during the day and had lower levels of the hunger hormone, grehlin, which stimulates appetite and promotes fat storage. (Interestingly, ghrelin secretion increases when dieting. This may, in part, explain why weight loss is so difficult to maintain).
Eating a large meal late in the day may disrupt the circadian rhythm which is associated with weight gain.
Our Recommendation
So, the answer to the question: Yes, following the old adage is definitely a good way to go!
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