Study: Cake with Breakfast? You'll Lose More Weight  As a health
book editor, I'm always on the lookout for new diet ideas, so a
study presented last week at the Endocrine Society's annual
meeting caught my eye. Researchers at Tel Aviv University
randomly assigned 200 adults to eat one of two diets, each with
the same number of daily calories (1,600 for men and 1,400 for
women). While one group ate just a low-calorie, low-carb
breakfast such as protein-filled egg whites, the other included
something sweet in their breakfast such as a doughnut, cookie,
or cake.   Now, the #1 lesson I've learned in the 15 years I've
been working on different diets is that pretty much any plan
works if the calorie count is low enough. But it's intriguing
that having dessert with breakfast could improve the results.
Why does it work? In the morning, the body's metabolism is more
active and better able to suppress ghrelin, the hunger hormone.
The subjects who had sweets at breakfast felt less hungry, had
fewer cravings, and were b