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By now all of us probably know this adage by rote – breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper. In all probability, we accept the fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day to be an unshakeable universal truth that brooks no argument.
Breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism and gives you the energy you need for the rest of the day. This meal is even more crucial for growing kids because they are apt to ignore their hunger pangs or satiate it with some junk food that can only harm their developing bodies. Even for adults who skip breakfast, weight control becomes more difficult because it makes you eat more at the next meal or have high-calorie snacks throughout the day to stave off your…
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