Dessert with breakfast cuts cravings, helps shed weight

Adding a cookie or cake to their daily breakfast diet may help dieters keep the pounds off.

Adding a cookie or cake to their daily breakfast diet may help dieters keep the pounds off.

A new study has found that dieters have less hunger and cravings throughout the day and are better able to keep off lost weight if they eat a carbohydrate-rich, protein-packed breakfast that includes dessert.

“The goal of a weight loss diet should be not only weight reduction but also reduction of hunger and cravings, thus helping prevent weight regain,” said Daniela Jakubowicz, MD, the study’s principal investigator.

Jakubowicz, a senior physician at Tel Aviv University’s Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, and her co-authors studied nearly 200 nondiabetic obese adults who were randomly assigned to eat one of two low-calorie diets.