This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 7th, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

New Data seems to point again to the notion that breakfast is bad for you, and again that the government's dietary advice is at least highly suspect.

Cato's Terence Keeley explains. You advocate for the average person not to eat breakfast.

Now it's not quite that simple, is that right?

It's largely that simple actually. What I particularly advocate is that people who tell you to

eat breakfast should be ignored.

If you're one of those people who wakes up in the morning feeling hungry and if you didn't

eat breakfast you would be weak, then of course you should eat breakfast. But what I am saying quite strongly is that if you're

told by the serial companies or the bacon companies or most researchers that breakfast is good for you, you should ignore that advice.

You're pointing to some new evidence that indicates that your theory has been, is being vindicated

in some way, so what is that? An Australian group have... has been

vindicated in some way.

an Australian group have looked at all the major studies that have been performed on breakfast

at an epidemiological or public health level

over the last few years.

And they found the evidence is very, very clear.

The average person who eats breakfast eats about 270 calories a day more than the average person who doesn't.

That means that eating breakfast on average increases your energy intake by rather

more than 10%.

And when you consider that we're living in a world of increasing obesity and overweight, increasing

diabetes and pre-diabilities, the eating of breakfast in such a world is a seriously bad thing.

For those who aren't aware, who don't engage in science or let alone meta-analyses, what should this tell them?

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