A massive 34-year-long study just provided us with some insight into a minute detail about elderly life that could foreshadow an early demise, and it all has to do with our breakfast habits.
The later you eat breakfast in old age, the more likely you are to die early. Now there is a fear-mongering headline if I’d ever seen one. Still, according to researchers across multiple countries, publishing their findings in Communications Medicine, this longitudinal study followed nearly 3,000 adults in the UK, aged 42 to 94, from 1983 to 2017, and found that every hour you delay breakfast later into the day increases your risk of death by 8 to 11 percent.
This means that morning fasters, who delay food intake for hours at a time in the name of good health, may actually be hastening their own demi