Skipping Breakfast May Make You More Likely To Develop Diabetes — Research
I’m diabetic. Believe me, you don’t want to have diabetes
Skipping meals has become more common — and more faddish. Breakfast is often a casualty of our modern lifestyle, and rising interest in the health benefits of fasting have pushed out other meals, such as dinner.
The most common set meal to be lost is breakfast. But is that always the best choice? The consequences of missing breakfast versus missing dinner are different. If you knew the different health consequences, would you make a different choice?
What choice would you make it you are diabetic like me, or potentially diabetic? Here’s what I learnt from the research.
Skip breakfast, or skip dinner?
Personally, I’m a “breakfast person”. Our habitual patterns of when and how much we eat have an impact on many health outcomes, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than 20 years ago (I’m sure it was not because of my love of breakfast).
The research (2017) compared the difference between skipping dinner with skipping breakfast on blood sugar, energy balance, and “inflammatory responses”.
