Chocolate cake breakfast could help you lose weight

Daily Telegraph ^ | 2:10PM GMT 08 Feb 2012

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Eating chocolate cake as part of a full breakfast can help you lose weight, say scientists.

It sounds too good to be true, but new research says having dessert—along with the traditional fry-up—burns off the pounds.

Morning is the best time to consume sweets, because that's when the body's metabolism is most active—and we have the rest of the day to work off the calories, a new study shows.

Eating cookies or chocolate as part of a breakfast that includes proteins and carbs also helps stem the craving for sweets later.

Researchers split 193 clinically obese, non-diabetic adults into two groups who consumed either a low-carb diet that included a 300-calorie breakfast or a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that included a chocolate cake dessert.

Halfway through the 32-week study, both groups had lost an average of 33 pounds per person. But in the second half of the study, the low-carb group regained an average of 22 pounds per person—while the dessert-gorgers lost another 15 pounds each. At the end those who had consumed a 600 calorie breakfast had lost an average of 40 pounds more per person than their peers.

Although both groups consumed the same daily total calories—the men 1600 calories per day and the women 1400—"the participants in the low-carbohydrate diet group had less satisfaction and felt that they were not full," said Professor Daniela Jakubowicz. Their cravings for sugars and carbohydrates were more intense and eventually caused them to cheat on the diet plan. …

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Sounds like a diet I could live with.

[G Larry]

Bill Cosby promoted this over 40 years ago.

“Dad is great, chocolate cake!”

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I once new a women who would bring a large box of King Don’s into the office every morning and proceed to eat the entire box before lunch. She weighed about 500lbs, so I guess the chocolate cake diet didn’t work for her...