Want to make breakfast the healthiest meal of your day?
Consider making breakfast the biggest meal of your day — while also including more fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and other fiber-rich plant foods.
That’s according to the findings of a small but striking new study that compared what happened when people followed diets that were high in either protein or fiber. On both diets, participants ate a large breakfast and a small dinner — the exact opposite of how people typically eat in the United States and many other countries, where dinner is usually the largest meal of the day and breakfast the smallest.
The study, which was published in the British Journal of Nutrition, found that both the high-protein and high-fiber diets provided benefits. People experienced more satiety on the high-protein diet. But eating more fiber led to more weight loss. (All the participants were overweight or obese.) It also boosted their gut microbiomes, leading to an increase in intestinal microbes that have been linked to better gut and metabolic health.
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