Breakfast consumption and body mass index relationship studied
Study finds breakfast consumers are “more likely to be older, female, white, non-smoking, regular exercisers and trying to control their weight.”
06/09/05 Researchers from Michigan State University and Kellogg Co. looked at 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. "The benefits of breakfast meals and choice of breakfast foods seems to be important in counteracting overweight in the United States," the researchers write.
The study was supported in part by Kellogg Co. and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.
