Starting the day with a big breakfast won’t necessarily help you lose weight. The theory has it that eating a large breakfast means you eat less during the day, thus reducing your calorie intake.

Researchers who examined the eating habits of around 300 people discovered that they also had a big lunch and a big dinner, too.

If you want to lose weight, say the researchers from the Else-Kroner-Fresenius Centre of Nutritional Medicine, you have to eat a small lunch and dinner.

That assumes a direct correlation between weight gain and calorie intake – and we know that’s only part of the story, anyway.

(Source: Nutrition Journal, 2011; 10: 5).

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