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Is Chocolate Cake for Breakfast Good for You?

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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...
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Is It Really That Bad to Skip Breakfast?

Is It Really That Bad to Skip Breakfast?
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...
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