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Do you really need to eat breakfast? The answer is more complicated than we were taught

For decades, skipping breakfast was treated almost like a nutritional crime—but science hasn't produced a universal rule that everyone needs to eat the moment they wake up. Serena Williams recently drew attention to the question when she described her training-day eating routine and said she isn't much of a breakfast person.

Do you really need to eat breakfast? The answer is more complicated than we were taught

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For decades, skipping breakfast was treated almost like a nutritional crime—but science hasn't produced a universal rule that everyone needs to eat the moment they wake up.

Serena Williams recently drew attention to the question when she described her training-day eating routine and said she isn't much of a breakfast person.

Her first meal often comes around lunchtime, followed by food strategically timed around training and recovery.

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For decades, skipping breakfast was treated almost like a nutritional crime—but science hasn't produced a universal rule that everyone needs to eat the moment they wake up. Serena Williams recently drew attention to the question when she described her training-day eating routine and said she isn't much of a breakfast person. Her first meal often comes around lunchtime, followed by food strategically timed around training and recovery.

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  • The answer is that when you eat matters, but so do what you eat, how active you are and what the rest of your day looks like.
  • If an elite athlete can skip breakfast, what happened to "the most important meal of the day"?
  • Breakfast isn't magic Observational studies have often found associations between eating breakfast and favorable health outcomes.
  • They may have different sleep patterns, activity levels, diets or daily […] The post <a href="https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/do-you-re...

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