The lesson to take away from this is ”we don’t know whether having breakfast has any effect on weight” The lesson I took was that "we don't know whether the ef

The lesson to take away from this is ”we don’t know whether having breakfast has any effect on weight” The lesson I took was that "we don't know whether the effect of breakfast on weight is meaningful (let alone measurable) because we chose crappy data, which means that the question may or not be answerable with better data." To me, it's worse than not doing the study at all and saving those resources for actual science. many (popular) articles on weight loss claim skipping breakfast is bad I agree, and that's why I read this in the first place. Meta-analyses using studies with no relevant controls (such as distinguishing the time-restricted feeding effect) are mostly worthless.