Globe and Mail Article This article written by Leslie Beck (sometimes she gives one the impression that she is a low-carber) basically asserts that eating a high fat breakfast versus a high carb breakfast is more likely to stave off extra weight and metabolic syndrome. Good news! It does suggest eating lighter at supper time. I definitely have almost always done that. My biggest meal tends to be at lunch time and not breakfast (although sometimes it is reversed), so that is where I differ. However, my breakfast is usually high fat.
Here is an excerpt if you don't have time to read the whole article:
"The researchers speculate that the first meal you eat programs your metabolism for the rest of the day. Fat intake at the time of waking is thought to turn on fat metabolism and help the body efficiently burn different types of food later in the day.
If the findings from this study translate to humans, it means that eating a carbohydrate-rich morning meal, such as cereal and toast, seems to “fix” your metabolism toward using carbohydrate for energy and impairs the body’s ability to burn fat later in the day.
A higher-fat breakfast, on the other hand, promotes a more flexible metabolism that can burn energy from fat and carbohydrate."
Here is another article in the news that says pretty much the same thing.