Do you think there’s a factual answer?
If you eat anything, you’ve broken your fast. There’s no minimum.
I’ve had breakfast fewer than 200 times in my life!
For me, it’s protein. If I have coffee and a slice of toast, that’s just something to tide me over until breakfast. If I have peanut butter or a fried egg on the toast, that’s breakfast.
See Post #12.
Anything eaten before 11:00 a.m. That’s when Mickey D’s stops serving breakfast.
If I eat cereal and yoghurt at 10:00, it’s breakfast. If I eat it at 11:00, it’s lunch.
Coffee with milk? Not breakfast.
Coffee with milk and whiskey? Breakfast. And you can leave out the milk. And the coffee.
As a longtime Breatharian, I gorge nonstop, and so will never have a fast to break, nor understand the term ‘breakfast’ as anything beyond a quaint abstraction. My cousin Roald, being less evolved, insists however that potatoes, an egg, and a joint of mutton are the components truest to the word. That, and tea.
Then a single bite of a cracker is enough to gain the physiological benefits of eating breakfast as reported by various studies?
Is there a cite for that?
I have read these and similar reports before. They are what prompted my question of how much is enough for it to count as breakfast.
:shrug:
Is it a calorie thing? Does one need to eat some percentage of daily dietary intake for it count as eating breakfast?
Is it a straight weight and composition thing? e.g. one needs x grams of y and z calories for the benefits of eating breakfast to kick in?
What exactly are the bounds and limits of breakfast in re it’s reported health benefits?
Additionally, how close to waking does a meal need to be for it to count as breakfast?
Sorry, I missed the part in the OP where you asked about the physiological benefits of eating breakfast. Do you have a cite for those benefits?
Take your pick
Skipping Breakfast
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=research+research+skipping+breakfast&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=Hn7-UaOpHoXS9QSynIGwBA&ved=0CCgQgQMwAA
Eating breakfast
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=research+research+eating+breakfast&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=Jn7-UYGWHo6y9gS6jYC4CQ&ved=0CCgQgQMwAA
From your first cite:
(bolding mine)
Clearly in that case breakfast could be anything, including nothing, but might include hot cereal or fruit.
Helpful hint: You have to ask an actual factual question, if you want an actual factual answer. Otherwise, all you’ll get is the crappy jokes you got.
What is ‘question’, anyway?
That’s always been my definition of breakfast, but nobody around here seems to want to let me have that one.
And no one will help me find a new word that DOES mean that, either.
Kinda makes me want to become a supervillain so I can show them; show them ALL, HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
About 10:30.
Before that, it’s “breakfast”. After, and it’s “brunch” or “lunch”.
The composition of the dish is irrelevant.
By that definition, a smoothie isn’t breakfast because you drink, rather than eat, it.
I would suggest a definition could be the consumption of calories. So by that definition, the OPs coffee with milk could be regarded as breakfast. A crappy breakfast, yes, but still a breakfast.
Hostess snacks have been back on store shelves since last month, including cupcakes, and yes, Twinkies, too.
I haven’t seen any on the shelves. There used to be a Hostess outlet somewhere around here, I’ll have to break my diet and look for that.
Here’s what I wonder: if I get up at, say, noon, does that make the next meal I eat breakfast? What if I only eat two meals that entire day? When science says that men who don’t eat breakfast have a higher heart attack risk, what does that mean? How long after you get up does eating cease to become breakfast, especially for the heart attack risk purpose?
I was in Wal-Mart on Saturday and Hostess products were given a considerable amount of shelf space. They were very prominent.