Full English breakfast is idle for lose weight!

A hearty sitting of foods like sausage, egg or bacon instead of low-fat cereals or fruit for the first meal of the day helps to curb hunger throughout the morning and cut the number of calories eaten at lunch time, experts claim.

An experiment at the University of Missouri on a group of 18 to 55-year-old women showed that a high-protein breakfast kept them fuller longer than a meal with less protein but the same amount of fat and fibre.

The team, led by research scientist Dr Kevin Maki, found eating between around 35 grams of protein for breakfast - the equivalent to a four-egg omelette or two sausages and a rasher of bacon - helped regulate appetite.