Good news for all the breakfast-skippers out there.

Those studies that were said to show that the first meal is the most important of the day? Maybe not. Failing to break your fast in the morning does not necessarily cause poor health, it is simply a parallel factor, or correlation, our analyst says. So “don’t feel bad if you’d rather skip it,” he writes, “and don’t listen to those who lecture you. Breakfast has no mystical powers (jo, för mig iaf).