date:May 22, 2013
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As many as 20-30% of adolescents in the U.S. do not eat breakfast at all and are dubbed breakfast skippers, a habit associated with excess body weight, according to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The teens who were assigned to eat a high protein breakfast experienced a decreased intake of approximately 400 calories later in the day. However, those who continued to skip breakfast as well as those who ate the same number of calories for breakfast but had much less p