This video is recirculating, claiming that chocolate cake for breakfast could be good for us. The study cited from Syracuse, was the Maine-Syracuse study, and did NOT find that eating chocolate can improve memory and cognitive function.1 There was no experiment. Rather, within a cross-section of older adults, the authors reported a mean z-score for two groups. Those who reported eating chocolate once per week were only 0.09 standard deviations above the mean, while those who...

Here is an interesting article examining a historical and scientific perspective on if skipping breakfast is really that bad (for weight loss). A few notes to add: The Largest Study on Breakfast and Weight Loss The web article does refer to the largest breakfast and weight loss study to date, led by Dr. David Allison's wonderful research team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.1 In this study, 283 participants classified as overweight or obese were...