Skipping breakfast is common among biohackers and intermittent fasting enthusiasts, but research suggests it could shorten your life.
Many scientific studies show the benefits of eating breakfast, including lowering the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, reducing inflammation, and slashing your risk of dying from any cause.
Eating breakfast is healthy, but what you consume for breakfast makes a big difference.
A large study published last year in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that regularly eating breakfast is associated with lower overall and cardiovascular mortality, particularly when consuming more than 25 grams of fiber per day.
Eating breakfast and consuming more than 25g of fiber per day corresponded with having 21% lower all-cause mortality than people who ate breakfast but didn’t eat as much fiber.
That could lead you to believe fiber is responsible for all the health benefits, but there was no association found between fiber intake and mortality in non-breakfast eaters.
All breakfast eaters fared better than non-breakfast eaters, but the combination of breakfast and high fiber was most beneficial (i.e. eating a high-fiber breakfast).
