(Eat desserts for breakfast,…) Those with a weakness for sweets
can now include cookies and cake in a 600 calorie breakfast menu
with some proteins and carbs to shed weight in a pleasurable way
and also stay slim. Attempting to avoid sweets entirely can
create a psychological addiction to these same foods in the
long-term, explains Daniela Jakubowicz, professor at Tel Aviv
University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, who led the study.
Over the course of a 32-week-long study, participants who added
dessert to their breakfast - cookies, cake, or chocolate - lost
an average of 40 pounds more than a group that avoided such
foods, the journal Steroids reports. What's more, they kept off
the pounds longer. A meal in the morning provides energy for the
day's tasks, aids in brain functioning, and kick-starts the
body's metabolism, making it crucial for weight loss and
maintenance, according to a Tel Aviv statement. And breakfast is
the meal that most successfully regulates ghrelin, the hormone
that increases hunger, ex