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Yeah I came here to make the same observation, this article is, as most things on HN, very US-centric. Being a european I've mostly eaten granola, porridge, müs

Yeah I came here to make the same observation, this article is, as most things on HN, very US-centric. Being a european I've mostly eaten granola, porridge, müsli or sandwiches with cheese and meat for breakfast. But I've still always heard that breakfast is an important meal, without any association to cereal. Just the fact that I'm hungry in the morning when I wake up should be an indicator. Everyone's mileage may vary.

asaph 8y ago
I'm never hungry in the morning. That should be an indicator that I should skip breakfast, which I often do.
- foobarian 8y ago
  I always thought the focus on breakfast came from our peasant roots. My ancestors were field workers and eating a huge breakfast + lunch made sense from an energy input standpoint.
  - ken 8y ago
    That's another factor that this summary (and possibly the cited research) ignores. What do you do before lunch? The two people in the video appear to be knowledge workers.
ubercow13 8y ago
Maybe you're hungry in the morning _because_ you eat breakfast
GordonS 8y ago
I'm in the UK, and since being a kid I've always heard "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". This was never specifically about cereal, but that's what most kids in the UK eat for breakfast - especially given at the time we were all told fat was evil, and would basically kill us. Nowadays I don't eat breakfast, as it helps control my weight, and TBH I don't miss it. When I started doing this, I thought about those "truths" I'd been fed as a kid, and suspected they came out of paid-for pseudoscience. A year or so ago I actually looked into this, and sure enough, all these claims about breakfast are from studies sponsored by Kellogs, other cereal brands, or companies closely associated with them. Governments base policy on these kind of claims, and over time they become unquestioned "truths" - paid-for, corporate science shilling really is an absolute fucking scourge on society.

asaph 8y ago

I'm never hungry in the morning. That should be an indicator that I should skip breakfast, which I often do.

foobarian 8y ago
I always thought the focus on breakfast came from our peasant roots. My ancestors were field workers and eating a huge breakfast + lunch made sense from an energy input standpoint.
- ken 8y ago
  That's another factor that this summary (and possibly the cited research) ignores. What do you do before lunch? The two people in the video appear to be knowledge workers.

ubercow13 8y ago

Maybe you're hungry in the morning _because_ you eat breakfast

GordonS 8y ago

I'm in the UK, and since being a kid I've always heard "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". This was never specifically about cereal, but that's what most kids in the UK eat for breakfast - especially given at the time we were all told fat was evil, and would basically kill us. Nowadays I don't eat breakfast, as it helps control my weight, and TBH I don't miss it. When I started doing this, I thought about those "truths" I'd been fed as a kid, and suspected they came out of paid-for pseudoscience. A year or so ago I actually looked into this, and sure enough, all these claims about breakfast are from studies sponsored by Kellogs, other cereal brands, or companies closely associated with them. Governments base policy on these kind of claims, and over time they become unquestioned "truths" - paid-for, corporate science shilling really is an absolute fucking scourge on society.