Protein Breakfast

You might have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But what you eat for breakfast can go a long way towards helping you stay slim.

Besides just "breaking the fast," breakfast, especially a high protein one, can keep you from getting over hungry during the day.

For years scientists have told us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It not only gives us a boost of energy when we need it the most, right after waking up, but has also been shown to keep you from eating too much during the day. And we've also known that skipping breakfast can lead to unhealthy snacking during the day and to overeating.

But a researcher out of the University of Missouri has found that a high protein breakfast in particular can make you feel fuller and help reduce hunger pangs throughout the day. In this study the worst offenders----"breakfast skipping" teenagers were given different types of breakfast and MRIs were taken of their brains to see how they responded. The ones eating high protein breakfast, in this case Belgian waffles, syrup and yogurt had the part of their brain activated that controls our food motivation.

So, at least according to this latest study, not only do you want to make sure you eat breakfast every day, but you'll also want to make sure it's rich in proteins---an easy way to help in the battle of the bulge.