Teenagers who skip breakfast are more likely to be obese than those who eat a morning meal, according to a finding that researchers say may be linked to rising obesity among adolescents.
Teens that skipped the meal were five pounds heavier on average, ate less healthy during the day and exercised less frequently than those who ate breakfast, researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics. The study is the largest to follow the breakfast habits of teens over years and track whether they've become obese, researchers said.
The obesity rate for adolescents has tripled over the past 20 years, according to a 2007 report by the U.S. Surgeon General's Office...
“There's been a growing body of scientific evidence that breakfast habits might be related to obesity and other health outcomes,” said Mark Pereira, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a study author. Skipping the meal may mean “you're more likely to eat the fast food or the vending machine food.”..
Teenagers who came from low-income homes and were nonwhite were more likely to skip breakfast, the study showed. The researchers said some teenagers may have refrained from eating the morning meal to lose weight.
Obesity means a person has too much body fat, while being overweight means a person's weight is more than what is viewed as healthy given his or her height, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The researchers said earlier studies have found 12 to 34 percent of children and teens ages 6 to 19 regularly skip breakfast.
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