Breakfast is the first meal of the day, typically eaten in the morning. The word derives from the idea of breaking the involuntary fast of sleep.http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breakfast Breakfast Traditionally breakfast is a large cooked meal eaten before work and designed to carry people through a large part of the day. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. Etymological information English: 1463, from break (v.) + fast (n.). Cf. Fr. déjeuner "to breakfast," from L. dis-jejunare "to break the fast." The verb is from 1679. The English word derives from the concept that sleep prevents eating, thus an involuntary fast occurs during sleep; this fast is broken by the first meal - called breakfast.http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breakfast Nutrition Many nutritionists claim breakfast is a very important (although not necessarily the largest) meal, pointing to studies that

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