I too am dubious of research which may start out with flawed premises and trying to only look at part of the picture (or day's meals) in drawing "conclusions." I do, however, think there may be some clue as to not so much whether one has breakfast/first meal shortly after awakening, but in a more general sense, for HIGH CARB eaters, how long they go between *any* meals: the longer they space their meals apart, the more dramatic some of their blood sugar levels may drop, causing some of them a sense of needing a quick rush of high sugar/carb energy. In the "no breakfast" application of that, a high carb eater has just coffee for breakfast (or nothing) and by 10am, semi-depleted blood sugar, falls prey to the mid-morning donut for a quick rush. Whereas low-carb eaters with their long-term appetite suppresion can either go without breakfast or with a nutritious low-carb moderate protein breakfast and not succumb to those low energy spikes inbetween meals as easily. The research doesn't even properly consider any of this, and like an earlier post pointed out, that supposed "bacon and egg" breakfast may have been bacon/egg/muffin/toast/juice the researchers were analyzing and mislabeling it "Atkins."