Have you ever heard the phrase "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? According to Dr. Sriram Machineni, director of the Medical Weight Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and assistant professor at the UNC School of Medicine, it is.
A recent study may have confirmed just that when it showed that people who ate closer to the time when their bodies released melatonin — "at the onset of sleep," said Machineni — had higher weight and higher body fat percentages than those who ate earlier. What this means, anecdotally, is that if you start your calorie consumption right when you wake up, you might have better luck with weight loss.
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