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The association between eating breakfast and body weight has been explored in cross-sectional studies and in several small prospective cohort studies. In a 5-year prospective study, investigators in Minnesota examined the association between breakfast eating patterns on self-reported BMI and weight changes in 2216 adolescents (55% girls, 63% white) at the mean age of 15 and again at 19.
In cross-sectional analyses, adolescents who ate breakfast daily had lower BMIs than those who never or intermittently ate breakfast. In prospective analyses, the inverse association between breakfast frequency at age 19 and change in BMI from age 15 (adjusted for BMI and breakfast frequency at age 15) was significant (5-year increase in BMI, 1.6 kg/m2 among …