Should You Force Yourself To Eat Breakfast Even If You Aren't Hungry?

We at The Huffington Post have no problem calling breakfast the most important meal of the day, and generally, experts don’t either. Long term studies link skipping breakfast to a higher risk of obesity, coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes, while eating breakfast is linked to a bunch of other benefits like a higher I.Q.

But these studies, long-term though they may be, only establish a correlational relationship between breakfast and health outcomes. In other words, they don’t demonstrate that eating or not eating breakfast actually causes these diseases and conditions. Instead, they simply show if a person is more or less likely to be at risk of something based on their breakfast habits.