If you skip breakfast today, you may be looking forward to Jell-O breakfast in a hospital. Sugar-free, since a new study shows that people who don't dash out the door without so much as a doughnut are 55 percent less likely to be obese or develop diabetes than people who say they "just don't have time." Researchers from Northwestern University, Tufts University, and University of California-Davis used data from the 11-year-old Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study that tracked people who at the start of the study were 25 to 37.

And although you'll probably feel better if you try the Hormone Cereal and the Banana Breakfast from our Recipes section, or juice with an Acme Juicer 6001, Breville Juice Fountain or Green Star Juicer GS-1000, experts said eating that long john or cruller, cereal bars or flavored yogurt with sprinkles, still cuts the risk of heart disease in half.

The study was not exactly complete, admitted its authors, since obese people tend to under-report what they've eaten (when they're not suing McDonald's), and eating breakfast seemed to have no effect on reducing heart disease and diabetes in black women, for reasons the study authors could not determine.

Still, for the rest of us who work at eating right, this study is one more reason to obey Mom's words of wisdom: "Start your day with a good breakfast."