Among overweight or obese adolescent girls who skip breakfast, eating a morning meal with 35 grams of protein from eggs and beef reduces hunger, increases fullness, alters hunger-related hormones,...

Among overweight or obese teenage girls who typically skip breakfast, eating a breakfast high in protein leads to about a 25% reduction in evening consumption of high-fat snacks, even when total daily calorie intake remains unchanged.

Among overweight or obese teenage girls who skip breakfast, eating a high-protein breakfast does not lead to a lower total calorie intake over the day, because they tend to eat more later to make up for the missed calories.

For overweight or obese teenage girls, eating breakfast—whether high-protein or normal-protein—lowers hunger and increases fullness during the day compared to skipping breakfast. A high-protein breakfast provides additional benefits in reducing hunger and increasing fullness during the afternoon.

When healthy young adults eat a high-protein breakfast instead of skipping it, they feel less hungry, want to eat less, and think about food less throughout the day.

Delayed protein consumption due to breakfast skipping results in elevated total daily caloric intake due to prolonged appetite drive until protein satiety thresholds are achieved.