Busy schedules affect the way we eat, obviously, but here are some statistics to "chew on." Nearly four in ten adults usually skip breakfast, what's been called "the most important meal of the day." More than half of the breakfasts eaten by Americans every day are consumed in ten minutes or less - usually alone - which is kind of surprising, since breakfast was rated the second-favorite meal of the day, after dinner, in a recent survey.
The National Weight Control Registry is a database of more than 5,000 people who have lost significant amounts of weight and kept it off for long periods of time. Seventy eight percent of the people in the registry found that eating breakfast daily was an excellent weight control strategy. Cold cereal tops the list of most common breakfast foods, cited by 31 percent of those who eat breakfast. Where did the concept of cereal for breakfast originate? John Harvey Kellogg was a doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan and an advocate of vegetarianism. He is best known for the invention of Corn Flakes cereal with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, in 1897. John and his brother did not actually invent the concept of the dry breakfast cereal, though. That honor belongs to Dr. James Caleb Jackson who created the first dry breakfast cereal in 1863, which he called Granula. What will you do today to keep Aging Backwards?
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