Researchers from Michigan
State University and Kellogg Co. have studied data from the fourth National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, to study relationships between
breakfast
consumption and body mass index in adult men and women.
The study found breakfast consumers are “more likely to be
older, female, white, non-smoking, regular exercisers and trying to
control
their weight.”
According to the authors:
“Effective weight
management as measured by BMI <25 was more strongly associated with
ready-to-eat cereal breakfast consumption than with breakfast consumption
in general.”
Previous studies have reported the importance of breakfast consumption
on total daily nutritional intake, and on the consumption of ready-to-eat
cereal in lowering the percentage of energy intake from fat and increasing
the intake of vitamin and minerals.
According to the researchers:
“The
benefits of breakfast meals and choice of breakfast foods seems to be
important
in
counteracting
overweight in the United States.”
The study was supported in part by Kellogg Co. and the Michigan Agricultural
Experiment Station.
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