en public specific letter to the editor <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="clear:both;"></div>Breakfast is a main&nbsp;effective component in a safe dietary lifestyle. Obesity is a social and clinical problem of the present century that is highly prevalent among different societies. The worldwide obesity rate has more than doubled since 1980. Many studies showed that the diet of obese people is insufficient. It is also observed that many obese and overweight people skip breakfast or do not pay enough attention to eating a complete meal in the breakfast.&nbsp; Based on the literature, obese people eat less breakfast, but those who eat breakfast almost every day usually receive enough micronutrients and provide a smaller percentage of their daily energy from fats . There is a scarcity of information regarding the relationship between breakfast consumption and obesity in Iran.</div> breakfast, weight gain, obesity 1 2 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-123-8&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ameneh Marzban amenemarzban@yahoo.com 0000-0002-8111-3319 Yes Department of Human Ecology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Farahnaz Khabiri 0000-0001-9982-8032 No Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.