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Having breakfast increases your chances of achieving and maintaining weight loss, according to a new study presented at a conference of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition.

Analyzing data on nearly 3,000 adults who lost a minimum of 30 pounds and kept the weight off for at least one year, researchers found that 78 percent ate breakfast daily, 10 percent skipped an early meal either once or twice a week, and 4 percent blew it off entirely. The average diet was high in carbohydrates, with about 22 percent of calories derived from fat.

"Eating breakfast helps you spread out your hunger and manage your food intake better throughout the day," says study author James Hill, M.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. "If you start out the day by eating something, you don't get this burning hunger later that causes you to overeat."

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