‘Should I use potato milk in my porridge?’: what you should really eat for breakfast

From drinking coffee on an empty stomach to the merits of fasting, have we been getting breakfast all wrong?

I think everyone should consider skipping breakfast as an experiment," says Professor Tim Spector, author of the recently reissued Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong. The question of whether breakfast is or isn't good for us has been around for years - with the waters thoroughly muddied by research funded by breakfast cereal brands like Kellogg's and Quakers. (You can guess what they concluded.)