Could Eating a Second Breakfast Help You Lose Weight?

by Alexa Erickson

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? So why not have two? There’s a growing trend promoting a “second breakfast” as a weight-loss mechanism. The idea: If you eat more in the morning, you’ll be less likely to snack at night, when, according to research, it’s harder to burn off calories. Now there’s research adding weight to this claim.

A study conducted by researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut suggests that eating something small to jump-start your metabolism followed by a slightly larger meal an hour or two later can keep you satiated until lunchtime and help prevent overeating throughout the rest of the day. The study, published in the journal Pediatric Obesity, tracked the weight and breakfast-eating patterns of students from 12 randomly selected urban area schools over the course of two years. The team looked at six different eating patterns: frequent breakfast skippers, inconsistent school eaters, inconsistent home eaters, frequent school eaters, frequent home eaters, and double-breakfast eaters. They found that it was the frequent breakfast skippers who showed increased odds of becoming overweight or obese compared to the double-breakfast eaters.

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De acordo com o texto,

I. tomar café da manhã em duas etapas parece ajudar a perder peso.

II. pessoas que não tomam café com frequência tendem a ser magras.

III. este estudo avalia hábitos alimentares de 12 grupos de estudantes.

IV. os pesquisadores acham que é mais difícil perder peso à noite.

V. aqueles que comem mais de manhã tendem a comer menos à noite.

Assinale a alternativa que apresenta apenas afirmativas corretas.