Scientific health care. Does Professor Lin Qingshun get gallstones easily if he doesn't eat breakfast? A few days ago (20 18-5- 14), a reader named Eric Lo used the "contact me" of this website to ask: I want to try to stop eating breakfast, but there is a lot of information in the workshop. If I don't eat breakfast, I get gallstones easily. What's your opinion? Thank you for your opinion analysis! Indeed, there is a lot of information in both Chinese and English that skipping breakfast is easy to cause gallstones, and many of them are written by doctors and nutritionists. However, it is a pity that these legends are at best "immediate children" (in Taiwanese, it is too early to say). In the medical literature, there is only one research report about "skipping breakfast and the risk of gallstones". Its title is the frequency of eating meat and the duration of overnight fasting: the role in the formation of gallstones? Frequency of eating and length of staying overnight on an empty stomach: Can it cause gallstones? )。 In fact, this so-called research report is only a "short report" that occupies half a page, and was published 198 1 years ago. This study analyzed 47 pairs of women with similar conditions, half of whom had gallstones (experimental group) and the other half had no gallstones (control group). The results showed that among 47 women with gallstones, 1 1 did not eat breakfast at all, while among 47 women without gallstones, only 4 did not eat breakfast at all. This result is certainly noteworthy, but it is far from "not eating breakfast leads to gallstones." Therefore, the title of the research report will put a question mark to indicate uncertainty. In any case, the only difference between "eating breakfast" and "not eating breakfast" is that the fasting time of the former is about 12 hours (from 7 pm to 7 am the next day), while that of the latter is about 17 hours (from 7 pm to noon the next day 12). Therefore, in 1998, another research report investigated the relationship between the length of overnight fasting and the risk of gallstones. Its title is Italian diet and gallstones: cross-sectional MICOL results. The results showed that people who fasted for more than 12 hours had a higher risk of gallstones than those who fasted for less than 12 hours. Please note that this study is not about eating breakfast, but about whether the fasting time is more or less than 12 hours overnight. Scientific health care. Does Professor Lin Qingshun get gallstones easily if he doesn't eat breakfast? A few days ago (20 18-5- 14), a reader named Eric Lo used the "contact me" of this website to ask: I want to try to stop eating breakfast, but there is a lot of information in the workshop. If I don't eat breakfast, I get gallstones easily. What's your opinion? Thank you for your opinion analysis! Indeed, there is a lot of information in both Chinese and English that skipping breakfast is easy to cause gallstones, and many of them are written by doctors and nutritionists. However, it is a pity that these legends are at best "immediate children" (in Taiwanese, it is too early to say). In the medical literature, there is only one research report about "skipping breakfast and the risk of gallstones". Its title is the frequency of eating meat and the duration of overnight fasting: the role in the formation of gallstones? Frequency of eating and length of staying overnight on an empty stomach: Can it cause gallstones? )。 In fact, this so-called research report is only a "short report" that occupies half a page, and was published 198 1 years ago. This study analyzed 47 pairs of women with similar conditions, half of whom had gallstones (experimental group) and the other half had no gallstones (control group). The results showed that among 47 women with gallstones, 1 1 did not eat breakfast at all, while among 47 women without gallstones, only 4 did not eat breakfast at all. This result is certainly noteworthy, but it is far from "not eating breakfast leads to gallstones." Therefore, the title of the research report will put a question mark to indicate uncertainty. In any case, the only difference between "eating breakfast" and "not eating breakfast" is that the fasting time of the former is about 12 hours (from 7 pm to 7 am the next day), while that of the latter is about 17 hours (from 7 pm to noon the next day 12). Therefore, in 1998, another research report investigated the relationship between the length of overnight fasting and the risk of gallstones. Its title is Italian diet and gallstones: cross-sectional MICOL results. The results showed that people who fasted for more than 12 hours had a higher risk of gallstones than those who fasted for less than 12 hours. Please note that this study is not about eating breakfast, but about whether the fasting time is more or less than 12 hours overnight. That is to say, according to the results of this study, if you are used to eating the last bite of dinner at 7: 00 pm and then eating the first bite of breakfast at 7: 001(or later) the next morning, you belong to the high-risk group of gallstones. Ah, actually, I shouldn't say "you". Am I not a high-risk group myself? Go for an ultrasound tomorrow! Anyway, before I tell you whether I have gallstones, I will provide you with a research report on the relationship between fasting and gallstones. Everyone knows that during Ramadan, Muslims must fast between sunrise and sunset every day. Therefore, the medical community is highly curious about whether this custom is harmful to health. In 2006, there was a research report entitled the influence of season and Ramadan mode on the incidence of acute cholecystitis. One of the findings is that fasting in Ramadan does not increase the risk of gallstones. Therefore, judging from these three unique research reports directly or indirectly related to "skipping breakfast and the risk of gallstones", I really have to say: I really have a high degree of doubt about whether this risk really exists. About the original source Author: Scientific Medical, moderator Lin Qingshun, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (now retired), has 40 years of medical research experience, published nearly 200 research papers, and served as a member of the jury of more than 60 world-renowned medical journals. From the perspective of medical research, articles based on scientific evidence are published to solve the health myth wandering on the internet, help readers avoid being misled by unconfirmed information, and thus safeguard personal health.