It is a general strategy for people to skip breakfast because they are in a hurry or want to lose weight or feel lazy to cook breakfast. About one-third of people worldwide skip breakfast.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it is the meal that makes the day started. Skipping breakfast begins to weight gain and adverse cardiovascular risk profile respectively. Irregular eating patterns (skipping breakfast) are connected with bad cardiac and metabolic risk forms. Skipping breakfast has been linked to a higher prevalence of several CV and metabolic risk factors, such as for overweight and central obesity, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and raised cholesterol levels. It has been confirmed in studies that people who have a tendency to skip breakfast were more likely to be smokers, alcohol drinkers, physically inactive and overweight.
Skipping breakfast producing overeating later in the day starting in turn to overweight and insulin resistance, increased blood pressure levels due to overactivity in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and harmful changes in lipid levels.
Obesity, central adiposity, hypertension, higher cholesterol levels, blood glucose, and metabolic syndrome have been connected to skipping breakfast and in turn, can partly explain the connections between this lifestyle bad habit and increased deaths due to cardiac and vascular causes. Very recently, it has been shown that skipping breakfast is linked with the presence and severity of subclinical atherosclerosis (accumulation of cholesterol plaques in blood vessels).