Watch Out! Skip Breakfast Can Trigger Weight Gain

Breakfast becomes the most important daily meal. A recent study shows skipping breakfast can trigger weight gain, even if one does not eat much throughout the day. 

Breakfast is essential for the body after previously fasting for about eight hours during sleep. Therefore, skipping breakfast can lower your metabolism and also make the body want many foods of any kind throughout the day. 

NDTV reported (5/12), according to a recent study, skipping breakfast can disrupt the body's internal clock and cause weight gain. Even that is true also if one does not overeat all day.

Previously, skipping breakfast has been linked to various diseases that include type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. But the effect of proper eating time on the internal clock is not very clear. 

Studies conducted by researchers from the University of Tel Aviv (TAU) and Hebrew University in Israel, can finally find a breakfast effect on the expression "clock genes" that regulate post-meal glucose and insulin response in healthy individuals and diabetics. 

The results suggest that breakfast may precipitate cyclic cycle gene expression precisely leading to better glycemic control.

One of the researchers from TAU, Daniela Jakubowicz said, "The circadian clock genes not only regulate changes in circadian glucose metabolism but also regulate body weight, blood pressure, endothelial function, and atherosclerosis."

"Proper meal times, such as eating breakfast before 9:30 am can lead to an overall increase in body metabolism, facilitate weight loss, and delay complications associated with type 2 diabetes and other age-related disorders." 

Through 18 healthy participants and 18 participants who were obese with diabetes, this study compared participants' conditions at breakfast and lunch, under the circumstances of getting lunch. 

Blood tests were performed to measure postprandial clock gene expression of the participants, plasma glucose, insulin and peptide-1 peptide-1 (GLP-1) and dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) activity.

In both healthy individuals and diabetics, it is evident that breakfast consumption improves rapidly the expression of specific clock genes associated with more efficient weight loss, and is associated with elevated levels of glucose and insulin after lunch.

On the other hand, on the day participants skip breakfast, causing a spike in blood sugar and reduced insulin response throughout the day, which then continues to show weight gain even if not overeating all day. 

Jakubowicz argues, the fact that we can change the expression of genes in just four hours is an imposing thing. Well, how? Still, want to skip breakfast?