Did you know...?
• Breakfast literally means ‘breaking the fast’ and for some people, especially children, the ‘fast’ can be as long as 16 hours!
• Children who eat breakfast perform better on standardised achievement tests and have fewer behaviour problems in school1
• Yet, 1 in 5 children are skipping breakfast and going to school on an empty stomach!
• Children and adults who eat breakfast, particularly breakfast cereal, are less likely to be overweight than their counterparts who skip breakfast2 and are likely to have healthier diets overall3
1Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 1998
2Gibson & O’Sullivan (1995); Journal of Royal Society of Health. Haines et al. (1996); JADA
3Crawley (1993); Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics 6
|
