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5 Good Reasons To Eat In The Morning

1. It May protect your heart.
        In a recent study that involved almost 27,000 men, researchers found that those who      
        didn't eat a morning meal were 27 percent more likely to develop heart disease than 
       those who did.
   2. It might lower your risk of type 2 diabetes.
        A Morning meal may help you avoid fluctuating glucose levels, which can lead to
        diabetes.
   3. It gets you moving.
       In a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN),  

       people who ate breakfast were more physically active during the morning than those    
       who didn't. 
  4. It might give you a mental edge.
       Research involving adults and children has indicated that breakfast might enhance
       memory, attention, the seed of processing information, reasoning, creativity, learning,        
       and verbal abilities.
  5. It just might keep your weight down.
       Although more than 100 studies have linked eating breakfast with a reduce risk of 
       obesity, researchers point out that those studies are merely observational and thus 
      don't prove that the meal keeps you from gaining weight.
     
     ConsumerReports. October 2014, p.16.