Guess which meal is the most important one of your day? It's BREAKFAST, the very one we most often skip because of time constraints. Well, if you need more convincing that you need to start out the day with a healthy meal, read what this new research article discovered.

Women who regularly skipped their breakfast were more likely to pack on the pounds and increase their risk for heart disease than anyone else.

According to the study published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, women skipped their breakfast for two weeks but were found to ear more during the rest of the day,which resulted in higher cholesterol levels, and less sensitive to insulin than women who ate breakfast every day.

Researchers followed the effects of eating or skipping breakfast on calories consumed and burned throughout the day as well as circulating insulin, glucose, and cholesterol levels in 10 healthy women of normal weight.

If you ate breakfast, you actually consumed about 100 fewer calories per day and had a better insulin response to eating, suggesting that your risk of diabetes was lower. This is known as the Staub-Traugott effect, which showed that eating meals closer together determines your blood sugar response to the next meal. This also affects your LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels,also making them lower, which is a GOOD thing. Bunch this all together and the researchers discovered a real negative effect from skipping breakfast:Increased cholesterol and insulin levels may also increase your risk of heart disease over time.