The Importance of Eating Breakfast on Weight Loss and Muscle Building

By Nathaniel S Drake 
Breakfast is widely considered the most important meal of the day for a variety of reasons. Not only will it improve your cognitive functioning, make you feel more alert and can even improve your mood, but eating breakfast is an essential component to any weight loss or muscle building program.

When you eat breakfast, you are literally breaking the fast you've undergone for the past 8 hours or so while you were asleep. During this time, your body was starved of nutrients and your metabolism was forced to slow to a near halt to conserve what energy was left.