We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert
When I get to the end of the article and it says in large print<p>&gt; Why you shouldn&#x27;t exercise to lose weight<p>and then the heading over a video<p>&gt; The science is in: exercise isn&#x27;t the best way to lose weight<p>I can&#x27;t help thinking that this kind of web journalism is itself just junk food. &#x2F;rant<p>Anyway, I wonder what the author would call breakfast in Spain.  I was recently in Barcelona, and <i>the</i> breakfast there was, just as my wife remembered from years ago in Valencia, chocolate croissant with cafe con leche, where &quot;leche&quot; is what we&#x27;d call condensed milk, and they give you three tube-shaped packets of sugar to go with it.  I looked for a good while to find an &quot;English&quot; breakfast, i.e. eggs, and they served them with French fries.<p><i>edit</i>: To clarify my rant, I wasn&#x27;t objecting to the claim about exercise, so much as the presentation.  It&#x27;s the endless gravy train of tabloid-style &quot;x is good&#x2F;bad,&quot; at once patronising and pandering, which only further undermines its credibility by claiming that &quot;the science is in.&quot;  Oh really, the science is in this time.  I&#x27;m glad we can finally put this behind us.