Calling all breakfast skippers. You've probably heard it before and it's true, eating breakfast is one of the most important steps you can take towards healthier eating. If you're not used to eating in the morning, start slowly with just one item and work up to a more balanced meal. Dedicated breakfast eaters let nothing come between them and their breakfast! Somehow, someway, they get it in. Once you get hooked on breakfast, you'll understand why.

Starting the day with breakfast has its many benefits. Breakfast eaters tend to:

• Have higher metabolisms (they burn more calories overall)
• Have less food cravings
• Eat less at night
• Have higher intakes of certain vitamins and minerals

If you're not hungry for breakfast, there's a good chance you've eaten too much or too late the night before. Once you get on to the routine of eating something in the morning and not eating too much at night, you will start to feel hungry for breakfast.
Breakfast is an important key to weight management. Breakfast skippers tend to make up for the calories they missed plus more later in the day. If you want to lose weight the first thing to do is start eating breakfast. It can boost your metabolism, decrease food cravings and prevent you from overeating later in the day.
Breakfast should consist of three out of the four food groups. Here are some recipes for balanced breakfasts:

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