Breakfast can boost your metabolism. While there has been a great amount of evidence published supporting the benefits of breakfast, now the evidence is even stronger. In the study, published in the Journal of Physiology, researchers asked 49 people to either eat breakfast or fast until mid-day, every day for six weeks. Before and after the study, the researchers measured everyone’s metabolism, body composition, and cardiovascular and metabolic health. The findings suggest that eating breakfast every morning may help lower the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease by increasing the activity of genes involved in fat burning. They also found that even if a morning meal increased a person’s total calorie consumption for the day, those calories might offset by other energy-burning benefits. However, while the participants in the study ate breakfasts high in carbohydrates, the researchers cannot say conclusively if other types of breakfasts (high-protein, high-fat, etc) would have the same effects. Researchers are also looking further into how breakfast interacts with other behaviors, such as regular exercise.