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The Breakfast Myth: How “The Most Important Meal of the Day” Was Manufactured

Nick Howarth

Published on: 09/02/2026

For most of human history, breakfast did not exist. Early humans did not wake up and eat before moving. They woke up and worked. Food came later—after hunting, gathering, herding, farming, or building shelter. This pattern held for hundreds of thousands of years across cultures, climates, and continents.