But women who skipped breakfast altogether had a risk that was a startling five times higher than the light breakfast group.

BBC: Breakfast key to cancer risk

Women who ate a cooked breakfast each morning were at more than twice the risk of developing oesophageal cancer as those who began the day with a light breakfast - classified as anything other than a fry up.

BBC: Breakfast key to cancer risk

One factor that has contributed to this transformation is the expansion of the menu that includes more breakfast and light lunch items.

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Once a light station that marked the shoals off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, for ships, the two-story Frying Pan Shoals Light Station now houses a bed-and-breakfast perched on a platform 32 miles off the coast of Cape Fear.

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My breakfast consists of just coffee, I eat very light lunches, such as salads, and dinner is usually a healthy home-cooked meal with the family.

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It is a cross between a love poem to Ms Lalonde and a city-symphony documentary, stitched in with a light-hearted parody of the social-enquiry film (subjects are shown eating their breakfast egg in all manner of ways).

ECONOMIST: Richard Leacock