Eating Breakfast leads to better health of Children

Breakfast

Many of us make excuses as to why we don't eat breakfast - "I'm running late." "I don't have the time." But as a parent, this is one behavior you may need to rethink, because a nutritious breakfast is essential for the growth and development of your children.

Children are continuously growing and changing every day, and a nutritious breakfast provides the sugar, starch, protein, and fat - elements necessary for children to ensure a sustained release of energy and a delayed onset of hunger. Eating breakfast also improves the intake of fiber, vitamins, and minerals, especially iron and vitamin C.
Studies have shown that eating breakfast gives children the nutritional boost they need to get the learning process going - to stimulate learning - and there are other benefits as well. Children who ate breakfast (when compared to those who rarely ate breakfast):

• Learn better
• Achieve more
• Participate in the class more
• Behave better
• Attend school more
• Visit the school nurse less often

Children who are hungry can be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Growth, the nonverbal aspects of development, learning, and social skills of undernourished children are significantly affected. But when the physical need of hunger is taken care of, these children can focus on learning and perform better in school, not only educationally but socially and emotionally as well.
The evidence is clear - eating breakfast, whether it's eaten at home or at school - and whether it's pancakes, cereal, fruit, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or leftovers from the night before - leads to better health, learning, and behavior - all keys to success at school - and in life.