Study Finds: Eating Cake With Breakfast Leads To Weight Loss

[JGeropoulas]

April, 2012 Monitor On Psychology (Members’ magazine published by the American Psychological Association)

These research findings certainly don’t make me want to include chocolate cake with breakfast, but they do make me wonder what biochemical process would explain the surprising results. It would also be helpful to know what the subjects ate for breakfast (e.g. fat content), if they all ate the same breakfast, what their carb intake was the rest of the day and if this decreased after eating cake with breakfast.

Considering that eating cake for breakfast is completely antithetical to a health-enhancing Paleo diet, and that the C’s have said that 37% of Israelis are psychopaths, the researchers’ university affiliation makes me wonder if this study is just more health-related dis-info.

Topping off breakfast with a piece of chocolate cake may help dieters lose more weight, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University. In a study with nearly 200 obese, non-diabetic adults, scientists found that participants who added dessert to their breakfasts - such as cookies, cake or chocolate -lost an average of 40 pounds more than a group that avoided such foods. They also kept the weight off longer. Researchers say that such a morning meal staves off cravings and defuses psychological addictions to sweet foods (Steroids, March).

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I did a little more digging because I’d never heard of the Steroids journal. Here’s what’s stated on their webpage (_http://www.elsevier.com/locate/steroids):

Steroids is an international journal devoted to original research on all aspects of steroids. Its focus is on both experimental and theoretical studies in chemistry and physiochemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism, molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, analytical techniques, comparative endocrinology, clinical research, mode of action (including that of related peptides), and the role of steroids on growth and differentiation.

Finding the actual research study discussed in Monitor’s dumbed-down review was more challenging than I expected, but I think this is it:

"Meal timing and composition influence ghrelin levels, appetite scores and weight loss maintenance in overweight and obese adults"
_http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039128X11003515

 

[mcb]

...Considering that eating cake for breakfast is completely antithetical to a health-enhancing Paleo diet, and that the C’s have said that 37% of Israelis are psychopaths, the researchers’ university affiliation makes me wonder if this study is just more health-related dis-info...

It sounds fishy, but I am not curious enough to spend the forty bucks and look closer (let alone go searching for the journal itself). There is plenty of good science that points in a different direction and I suspect that this is part of the pseudo science in place to maintain the status quo. But I don't know that and frankly I don't care. :)

 

[SeekinTruth]

...Considering that eating cake for breakfast is completely antithetical to a health-enhancing Paleo diet, and that the C’s have said that 37% of Israelis are psychopaths, the researchers’ university affiliation makes me wonder if this study is just more health-related dis-info...

It sounds fishy, but I am not curious enough to spend the forty bucks and look closer (let alone go searching for the journal itself). There is plenty of good science that points in a different direction and I suspect that this is part of the pseudo science in place to maintain the status quo. But I don't know that and frankly I don't care. :)

My thoughts, exactly, FWIW. Also I remember the C's saying that 42 or 47% of Israelis are psychopaths (it was in the 40's if I remember correctly). One more thing "they also kept the weight off longer:" longer than what? It implies that the participants tended to put the weight back eventually like just about all weight loss diets that aren't ketogenic.

 

[Laura]

Notice that the study was devoted to "non-diabetic" adults; yet diabetes is becoming epidemic in the world thanks to high carb/grain diets. So this is a non-representative selection of individuals, and represents only a very small slice of the larger population. Not to mention how many people are pre-diabetic.

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

Also, weight loss doesn't necessarily correlate to health, even if it does occur. You can lose weight if you starve yourself too, or eat nothing but salads. But you'd be hurting yourself in the process. The good thing about Paleo is that it returns you to a natural, healthy weight - without forcing weight loss on your body through some sort of deprivation.

 

[liffy]

It would have been interesting to see a similar study made with several groups of people, all adhering to paleo principles, but where some of the groups have different amounts of carbs for breakfasts, and some groups stay very low on their intake.

 

[Lucius]

Also, weight loss doesn't necessarily correlate to health, even if it does occur. You can lose weight if you starve yourself too, or eat nothing but salads. But you'd be hurting yourself in the process. The good thing about Paleo is that it returns you to a natural, healthy weight - without forcing weight loss on your body through some sort of deprivation.

That is truth when I lost 10 kg I was eating milk and low fate diet- that not meant that was healthy to me.

Now lost another 25 kg ( about 1,5 ago - when started detox and mix paelo diet ) - then losing weight is no a symptoms of - good eating habits.

 

[truth seeker]

then losing weight is no a symptoms of - good eating habits.

Not at all. The same holds true with people who are naturally skinny. It's a common misunderstanding that they are automatically healthy when it's not always the case.

 

[JGeropoulas]

Notice that the study was devoted to "non-diabetic" adults; yet diabetes is becoming epidemic in the world thanks to high carb/grain diets. So this is a non-representative selection of individuals, and represents only a very small slice of the larger population. Not to mention how many people are pre-diabetic.

That's such a relevant detail, that I failed to consider, and which, as you say, undermines any relevance to the general population of carbivores.