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Show Good Breakfast Holds Weight Down Says Expert Skimpy breakfasts may be one reason for the 15 million overweight over-weight adults in the United States the county home demonstration agent points out. Breakfast is the day's most important im-portant meal. Fruit, cereal, milk egg, bacon and toast will add fewer pounds than will a breakfast of coffee and sweet rolls, Mrs. Vincent Vin-cent declares. The large breakfasts have 550 calories, while the coffee and sweet rolla contain only 350 calories However, the larger breakfast will' carry a busy person over until noon with no mid-morning snack and less desire to eat too much lunch or dinner. The protein supply makes the difference the larger meal has 18 grams. Protein seems to control the hunger signal. The higher his protein intake, the longer the worker can keep his hunger signal turned off. Part of the food eaten turns to sugar. The amount of sugar in the blood changes quickly after a meal It controls the appetite; when the blood sugar reaches a certain point the hunger signal turns off. The breakfast of sweet rolls und coffee with cream and sugar Is mostly carbohydrates. Carbohydrates Carbohy-drates raise the blood-sugar level (Continued on Page 10) and proteins are digested, so they help keep a more constant blood-sugar blood-sugar level. Folks who haven't learned to eat a big breakfast can take their fruit or fruit juices as soon as they get out of bed. That will help get them ready for the rest of their breakfast later. Good Breakfasts Hold Weight Down (Continued from page 2) quickly. They are quick energy foods, but their energy is soon used up and the hunger signal turns on again. By 10 o'clock the busy housewife or other family member eats a mid-morning snack which adds several hundred more calories, the home agent explains. During the day she will have eaten far more calories than if she had eaten the larger high-protein breakfast. Eggs, meat and milk are all high in proteins. Milk improves the protein quality in cereals. Proteins Pro-teins also raise the blood-sugar level but they hold above the hunger hun-ger line far longer. Fats slow down the rate at which carbohydrates |