Breakfast skippers could be putting themselves in a sticky situation - one that could increase their risk of a morning heart attack, cautions the Nutri/System Health & Fitness Information Bureau.
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In a study of healthy adults, cardiologist Renanta Cifkova from Memorial University of Newfoundland compared the effects of skipping breakfast with eating breakfast. She found that on mornings when the subjects skipped breakfast, their levels of beta-thromboglobulin (beta-TG), a protein that indicates blood "stickiness" or susceptibility to the development of clots that could lead to heart attacks, averaged more than 21/2 times higher than on days when the subjects ate breakfast. After eating, however, the beta-TG levels dramatically decreased.