Skip Breakfast Regularly? You Could End Up With 200 Gallstones

Here’s why your mom was right all along when she forced food down your throat in the morning.

For most college students and working professionals living on their own, the first meal of the day is usually consumed well into the afternoon.

The moment our moms stop forcing food down our throats before we leave home, we start slacking and skipping breakfast.

Now, said moms have a new weapon in their armoury: “You’ll get 200 gallstones if you don’t have this parantha right now.” Okay, that’s mom-level exaggeration. But something similar happened to a 45-year-old Chinese woman. Ms Chen underwent surgery to remove 200 gallstones from her gallbladder and bile ducts.

Reports say that Dr Quanwei Wei, a general surgeon, said the stones could have resulted from her habit of skipping breakfast. Chen said that she had not eaten breakfast for eight years.