Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagle the nutrition diva here with your quick and

dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous now we've all heard that breakfast

is the most important meal of the day,

and that skipping breakfast is a no-no.

But many of you have written asking how late you can eat and still count the meal as breakfast,

and several of you seized on my episode about going longer

between meals as a potential excuse to skip breakfast. Obviously a lot of you are

desperate for a loophole here so this week I'm going to explain the right way to skip breakfast.

Today's episode is rated ND17 because it applies to adults only.

There's a raft of studies showing that kids who eat breakfast just do better in school.

And not surprisingly, missing breakfast has the biggest impact on cognitive function in kids whose

overall nutritional status is or ever was poor.

And the better the breakfast, the better the results.

I've got a link in the show notes to more information and how to send your kids off ready

to learn.

Many adults also feel better when they eat breakfast, and that's you by all means eat something good for me in the morning

But some of you tell me you're just not hungry when you wake up and you'd be just fine without breakfast. Thank you very much, if the nutrition police didn't

insist that you choke something down.

Well, what's the evidence showing that adults must eat breakfast?

Studies on college students suggest that in adults, skipping breakfast doesn't have a big impact on things like concentration, alertness, and other areas of cognitive performance.

There's one exception. The study showed that adults who skip breakfast

don't perform as well on memory tests.

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