BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 6 (UPI) — Eating two eggs for breakfast helps overweight adults lose more weight and feel energetic than eating a bagel breakfast, U.S. researchers said.

Lead researcher Nikhil V. Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University system compared study subjects who ate a bagel breakfast with men and women who consumed an equal breakfast of two eggs for breakfast as part of a reduced-calorie diet.

The study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, found that those eating the egg breakfast:

– Lost 65 percent more weight.
– Exhibited a 61 percent greater reduction in body mass index.
– Reported higher energy levels than their dieting counterparts who consumed a bagel breakfast.

The researchers also found that blood lipids were not impacted during the two month study.

They found that blood levels of high-density lipoproteins, the “good” cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins, the “bad” cholesterol, as well as triglycerides, did not vary compared to baseline cholesterol blood levels in subjects who ate either the bagel or egg breakfasts.

These findings add to more than 30 years of research that conclude that healthy adults can enjoy eggs without significantly impacting their risk of heart disease, Dhurandhar said.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and here is Olympic Champion Michael Phelps has:

• three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayo

• one five-egg omelets
• a bowl of grits
• three slices of French toast with powdered sugar
• three chocolate chip pancakes
• two cups of coffee

For lunch:

• Phelps drinks 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks
• one pound of pasta with tomato sauce
• two large ham and cheese sandwiches (with mayo) on white bread

And finally for dinner:

• Phelps’ meal consists of six to eight slices of pizza, another pound of pasta with tomato sauce, and 1,000 calories of energy drinks

The basic principle behind a calorie controlled diabetic diet is of course controlling your daily calorie intake. A 1200-1600 calorie diet is based around consuming no more than those calories per day. The benefits of these diabetic diets is that they give you the opportunity to control your sugar levels in your blood stream, this in turn will give you better control over your weight and reduce any heart complaints. The 1200-1600 daily calorie diets are aimed at small women who exercise, small or medium-sized women who want to lose weight, and medium women who do not exercise much.