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A balanced diet provides the necessary nutrients for body energy, but also to construct the segments. Condition of a healthy diet is good meals distribution with foods low in fat and rich in non-refined carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fiber and water, according to the standards of the Mediterranean diet. This dietary pattern shown negatively associated with the occurrence of disorders such as cardiovascular diseases. Proven the Mediterranean diet due to the antioxidants and bioactive molecules, acts protective against atherosclerosis, improving the areas related to the development of cardiovascular diseases. Adherence to Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS), which is characterized by abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, low high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration (HDL) and increased blood pressure (BP). Processed foods and breakfast bypass (often in combination with inadequate during sleep) was associated with an enhanced risk MetS. Frequent breakfast consumption has been proposed for the reduction of total cholesterol, triglycerides and insulin levels in the blood, has been associated with a lower body mass index, with a lower risk for obesity and chronic diseases, through mechanisms involving energy balance and metabolism. PURPOSE: The association of breakfast consumption with the existence of metabolic syndrome and thus the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. METHODS: It was a study on a sample of 42 patients with cardiovascular disease General Hospital of Edessa and Katerini. They were studied the eating habits (MedDietScore questionnaire), social habits (smoking), physical activity, the existence of healthy behavior (EatingBehaviourScore). They were measured levels of biochemicals markers (triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, glycose) and the anthropometric characteristics (height, weight, waist circumference, circumference potencies, neck circumference) and blood pressure. As a control group were used results of general population from the research Hydria and Charokopio Athens University. The comparison of groups using the mean, standard deviation and the P value of statistical tests. RESULTS: The factors which appear to contribute to the existence of cardiovascular with statistically significant difference is the middle region both male patients, and in the sample of women (P<0,001), the ratio waist / girth current (P<0,001) and BMI, but surprisingly only in female patients sample (P=0,015), that’s why men did not show statistical significance level (P=0,491). Glycose among both men and women (P<0,001), triglycerides also both sheets (P=0,001), HDL cholesterol (P=0,02), systolic blood pressure (P<0,001), but not diastolic blood pressure which showed no statistically significant difference (P=0,878). CONCLUSION: There is no compliance of patients in healthy eating patterns, since almost all indicators and 2 cards show a statistically difference. There is a dependence of breakfast consumption and the existence of metabolic syndrome and thus the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.