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Eggs have always been a traditional part of an American breakfast, but for a long time, health experts have blamed them for raising blood cholesterol and increasing the risk of heart disease. It turns out this is all baloney. It was an assumption accepted without any evidence at all.

Researchers from the Journal of the Medical Association found that consuming an egg daily had little impact on stroke or heart disease risk. And in fact, there’s even one experiment from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that links higher levels of good cholesterol with egg consumption!

This also vibes with a study that we read last week that suggested that a higher-calorie breakfast was the best way to start the day — the breakdown of fats in the morning would help your body process food throughout the day.

How concerned are you about eating a healthy breakfast? Do you avoid eggs or other breakfast staples?

More from the Los Angeles Times.

It’s often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but should it also be the fattiest? A new study from the International Journal of Obesity (sounds like pleasant reading) says that a fatty meal in the morning will help break down fat later on in the day. Could bacon at breakfast be good for your metabolism?

According to Dr. Martin Young, one of the researchers behind the University of Alabama of Birmingham study, “This study suggests that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilization throughout the rest of the day, whereas if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you (can) transfer your energy utilization between carbohydrate and fat.”

There’s still more work that needs to be done before the study can come to any major conclusions, but it does support the idea of a balanced breakfast. And I’m all for research that encourages me to eat bacon.

More at Body and Mind. Photo by ex.libris.

Over at Chicken Counting, Laura has come up with an absolutely genius idea to get your kids to read at the breakfast table: custom cereal boxes. “Grab a few poems or science facts or spelling words or what-have-you, print it out, and glue or tape it on,” Laura writes. “Five minutes, max.”

Personally, I’d paste on a map of the U.S. with the state capitols, but maybe I just miss the placemat I had as a kid.

Read the whole thing at Chicken Counting. Via Parent Hacks.

There’s a saying that goes, “Pancakes are the greatest thing you can eat for breakfast.” Actually, I just made that up, but it doesn’t make it any less true! To prove that point, I’ve gathered twenty creative pancake recipes from a few of our favorite food blogs.

Pancakes with Blueberry Maple Syrup at honey & jam
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