Skipping breakfast linked to heart attacks in men: Harvard study

  

July 22, 2013 (WLS) -- Harvard researchers found that older men who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of heart attack than those who ate a morning meal.

Other studies have linked skipping breakfast to obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes but this is the first to draw a connection to heart attacks.

Experts say people who don't have breakfast are more likely to eat larger, unhealthier meals later.

The study was published in the journal "Circulation."

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