I can't... I just believed the hype.

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The links you provided debunk the notion of weight loss being impacted... but health seems to still have some potential links.

"The last point that Dhurandhar brings up is an important caveat: There are very good studies that suggest that skipping breakfast does influence our health in other meaningful ways. For instance, it’s well known to affect metabolism, since it forces the body to stay in a fasting state for a longer period of time. Last year, a study found that skipping breakfast was linked to coronary heart disease, presumably because the extra time fasting leads to a rise in a group of factors that together increase heart risk. “Prolonged fasting,” says study author Leah Cahill, “leads to increases in diastolic and systolic blood pressure, blood concentrations of insulin, triglycerides, free fatty acids and LDL-cholesterol, and to decreases in blood concentrations of HDL-cholesterol.”"

>Two studies in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association backed up this finding. Though they were funded by cereal companies, dietitians say they underscore the message - breakfast is important to weight loss.

I'd be very careful here. While studies funded by private interests are probably not tampered with, the results generally are through reporting bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_bias#Reporting_biases.... Basically, these cereal companies can keep funding studies and publishing the ones that serve their economic interests - the scientific world is rife with this kind of crap (seriously, this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's the norm). There are other studies that directly contradict the cereal-company ones btw: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/is-breakfast-overra...

Ok, so there's nothing inherently wrong with eating breakfast. That being said, I'm not sure anyone can say that people who eat breakfast are "they type of person who is more likely to exercise and eat healthier meals" -- WebMD makes no effort to substantiate their claim at all with any references. That, and the fact that, at least here in the good ol' US of A, there is an enormous problem with obesity, diabetes, and a host of other metabolic-related illnesses. I bet if anyone counted, they'd find that an extremely vast majority of those people eat breakfast everyday. Anecdotally speaking, almost all of the people I know who skip breakfast are absolute physical specimens when it comes overall health and physique (That doesn't mean there aren't those who fit that criteria who DO eat breakfast, just a personal observation)

There has been a lot of research around periods of fasting, and Martin Berkhan has done a lot of work parsing out nonesense (poorly designed studies, etc.) on this particular topic. This specific article might be something you should check out regarding the cortisol awakening response, and why people who eat breakfast generally tend to weigh more than their intermittent fasting counterparts: http://www.leangains.com/2012/06/why-does-breakfast-make-me-...

I find I can't eat soon after waking up - I'm simply not hungry at the start of the day and I find I get indigestion if I eat irrespective of that (which happens occasionally due to well meaning people nagging me to have some breakfast).

This means that I usually (on working days at least) miss breakfast. I don't have any particular health problems that might relate to this so I presume that this is healthy enough.