Researches at Harvard University have conducted a study of 2,831 people, and discovered that those who ate breakfast every day were 44 percent less likely to be overweight and 41 percent less likely to suffer from insulin resistance--a precursor to diabetes--than those who had no a.m. meal.

Your breakfast plate should be filled with high-quality protein, slow-digesting carbohydrates (also mentioned on this site, please search for it), and healthy fats.

The protein from your breakfast, will stop muscle breakdown and provide the raw materials for laying down new muscle. The carbohydrates from your breakfast will replenish energy stores without elevating blood sugar; and healthy fats assure your body that there's more coming in, giving it the green light to burn stored fat.

Good fats are found in salmon, tuna, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, and most cooking oils. You can also take healthy fats through supplements, then you should invest in a fish or flax seed oil supplement. So, good fats are the naturally-occurring, traditional fats that haven't been damaged by high heat, refining, processing.