Latest reports contradict idea that a big breakfast help reduce overall calorie intake.

Previous reports have suggested that having a larger breakfast can suppress calorie consumption later in the day resulting at reduced overall intake and aiding weight loss.

A more recent report suggests the opposite however, that eating a larger morning meal does not reduce the amount of food eaten at lunch or dinner.

“the results of the study showed that people ate the same at lunch and dinner, regardless of what they had for breakfast”

This means that a bigger breakfast by on average 400kcal resulted in a total increase in calories eaten over the day of about 400kcal. It can mean people skip a mid morning snack but is not enough to offset the extra calories they had already eaten.

The reason for the discrepancy may be that the original study looked at the ratio of breakfast to daily calories rather than absolute calories.

These surprising findings show the association persists even at heavy drinking levels.

An article entitled “Do alcohol consumers exercise more? “. These findings from a national survey of over 250000 Americans has described a strong association between the amount people exercise and how much they drink.

The surprising finding was that this association persisted even at high levels of alcohol consumption with heavy drinker exercising around 20min per week more and having a 13.7% chance of engaging in more vigorous exercise.

If there is a biological like between the two it is possible it is because the same pathways in the brain are involved in the response to both meaning if you have a tendency to exercise you also have a tendency to drink more alcohol. Read more about this on the NY times site.

The total economic cost of overweight and obesity in the United States is $270 billion per year while the cost in Canada is about $30 billion a year

The findings of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) that uncovered the$300 billion total cost in the United States and Canada is the result of:

1) Increased need for medical care ($127 billion)
2) Loss of worker productivity due to higher rates of death ($49 billion)
3) Loss of productivity due to disability of active workers ($43 billion)
4) Loss of productivity due to total disability ($72 billion), said the Society of Actuaries (SOA).