Having a big breakfast and a smaller dinner could help weight loss by making you less hungry, say researchers, reports BBC.

The research was conducted by a team from University of Aberdeen. They found people burned the same calories whenever they had their biggest meal of the day.

The researchers were studying the "chrono-nutrition" and how the food we eat is being impacted by the rhythms of our body's internal clock.

The controlled study of 30 volunteers had all their meals prepared for them and monitored for more than two months with breakfast, lunch and dinner adding up to about 1,700 calories per day.

The volunteers spent one month having an enormous breakfast using up nearly half their daily calories, followed by a reduced lunch and an even smaller evening meal. In the other month the volunteers had their big meal in the evening rather than the morning.

The findings of the study published in the journal Cell Metabolism showed that the timing of a big meal made no difference to the amount of calories burned, to people’s resting metabolic rate or the weight they lost.

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