[HN Gopher] Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health
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       Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health
        
       Author : wjb3
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2026-03-01 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hristov wrote:
       | Interesting but they had no control.
        
         | baxtr wrote:
         | The whole study design seems odd.
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         | Why not add a third high-fiber + high-protein group for
         | example?
        
           | VLM wrote:
           | They would have needed 20 participants, which is too many.
           | 
           | Soon we will have more participants in the HN comments for
           | the study, than were studied in the study.
        
         | AnEro wrote:
         | I feel like the regular weight loss group was? Since it isn't
         | necessarily rocket science for having mostly men stay in an
         | easily determinable caloric deficit to lose weight. (Women have
         | usually would be harder due to more conditions and hormone
         | interactions that make finding a TDEE not as simple.)
        
         | Apocryphon wrote:
         | They didn't eat _that_ much.
        
       | chairhairair wrote:
       | 19 participants.
        
         | Oras wrote:
         | >> therefore 19 participants completed the study (2 females and
         | 17 males) and their data are presented throughout
         | 
         | Who in their own mind decided that this is a "study" worth
         | publishing?
        
           | AnEro wrote:
           | Someone with quotas
        
         | yokoprime wrote:
         | Average age was 57, which may be rather high. Also: why not
         | test out combining both diets?
        
         | mijoharas wrote:
         | That was the point I stopped reading.
        
       | abainbridge wrote:
       | The abstract begins, "Growing evidence supports early eating to
       | control appetite and energy balance". What does that mean? My
       | unskilled reading of it is that there is recent evidence that
       | eating breakfast helps with weight loss. But I'm confused because
       | there was a 2019 meta-analysis that found that eating breakfast
       | does NOT help with weight loss.
       | https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l42
        
         | tonyedgecombe wrote:
         | [delayed]
        
       | dfex wrote:
       | It sounds like this study might have been funded by.... Big
       | Breakfast.
       | 
       | I'll see myself out.
        
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