{"id":13897,"date":"2017-04-02T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2017-04-02T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:29:02","slug":"eating-breakfast-is-dangerous-you-may-develop-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13897","title":{"rendered":"Eating Breakfast is Dangerous; You May develop type 2 Diabetes and Obesity\u2019, &#8211; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">By TAMMY HUGHES: Eating breakfast is dangerous and forcing children to eat it is \u2018child abuse\u2019, according to a leading biochemist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Professor Terence Kealey says it puts people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His claims fly in the face of received wisdom that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Prof Kealey, the former Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, was a type 2 diabetic but managed to reverse the condition after he stopped eating breakfast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">&#8216;Lots of kids don\u2019t want to eat breakfast&#8217;:\u00a0Professor Terence Kealey said if parents are worried to give their children an apple instead<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The biochemist, who was formerly an academic at Cambridge University, claims that studies which show children getting better exam results after being given breakfast at school are misleading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He added that the free breakfasts given to pupils by some schools in deprived areas do not help students\u2019 brain function, but rather reduces truancy rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Asked what parents should do about giving a child breakfast, he said: \u2018I would let the kids decide for themselves if they want breakfast. Lots of kids don\u2019t want to eat breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If you\u2019re worried, give them an apple or something, but the idea that you should force them to eat breakfast is a form of child abuse.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12783&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But his advice to shun the meal doesn\u2019t just apply to children. He believes that eating in the morning also puts adults at risk of developing type 2 diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Professor Kealey, also a former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, claims he managed to reverse his own type 2 diabetes after he stopped eating breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He now believes that it is a dangerous meal, because it increases blood glucose levels when they are already very high.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prof Kealey, the former Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, was a type 2 diabetic but managed to reverse the condition after he stopped eating breakfast<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/market.jumia.com.ng\/women-shoes\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=3844d40b&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=3844d40b\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/3844d40b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=3844d40b\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His theory is that the human body is naturally nauseous in the morning because of high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the body, and that eating breakfast will just encourage us to eat more during the day. He also said that most studies on breakfast have been \u2018funded either by Kellogg\u2019s or General Mills\u2019 and are biased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Professor Kealey made his claims, which fly in the face of perceived wisdom, at the Oxford Literary Festival on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said: \u2018There is a scientific community that for a hundred years has determined we should all be eating breakfast, and in a sense, it has fooled itself as much as fooled anyone else in the data it has collected.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/breakfast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13898\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/breakfast-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/breakfast-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/breakfast-272x182.jpg 272w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/breakfast.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, paediatric nutritionist Jennifer Rosborough was sceptical of the academic\u2019s claims. 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