The results of the current study support the hypothesis
that breakfast skipping is more prevalent among urban
adults of Bangladesh. The overall prevalence of
breakfast skipping was estimated as 35.8% by urban
adults of Bangladesh. A number of studies have looked
at the prevalence of skipping breakfast. Several studies
showed that the prevalence of breakfast skipping,
among Louisiana (France) adult was higher than in other
countries. A Cross-sectional survey (Nicklas et_al.,
1998) of young adults in Bogalusa, La showed the
prevalence of breakfast skipping with 37% where Nicklas
et al., 1998 and Shaw, Mary, 1998 reported that 19% of
American and 12% of Australian young people skipped
breakfast. In this study the prevalence of breakfast
skipping among adult population of Bangladesh is also in
high with 35.8% which was close to the result of the
study on France adults (Nicklas et al., 1998). Another
study (Deshmukh-Taskar et al., 2010) showed the
prevalence of breakfast skipping among adolescents
with 31.5% where present result reports the prevalence
with 35.8%. Another study showed the prevalence of b