Science Of Breakfast Whoriskey Summary

In Whoriskey’s article, “Science of breakfast: how nutritionists might have gotten it wrong”, the central idea is that scientific claims should be backed by strong experimental data, rather than weak observational data. This idea develops over the course of the text as the author introduces the notion that skipping breakfast can make you fat, then provides various studies that contradict that statement. On page 2, in the study led by the US Dietary Guidelines, out of 20,000 male men, those who ate breakfast were 13% less likely to gain weight. Within the study, while it may seem that skipping breakfast is unhealthy, the experiment itself was an observational study, in which those who did skip breakfast, tended to drink more, smoke more, exercise