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Video: Should You Eat Breakfast?

How can breakfast be the most important meal of the day if so many healthy people skip it to do intermittent fasting?

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Have you ever heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Yeah, me too. But, I also happen to love all breakfast foods and eating in general, so I was always pretty content to believe that that was true.

But more recently, I’ve been hearing a lot of people talk about intermittent fasting. It’s a diet where, instead of counting calories, or carbs, or anything like that — you just focus on when you eat, and you restrict yourself to only eating during certain hours in the day. It’s supposed to be really good for you.

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Most people that do it, do it by skipping breakfast. That’s because it’s much easier to skip breakfast on a daily basis than it is dinner, at least for anyone with friends, or a family, or even just a fairly regular schedule.

I mean, good luck having “never ...

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