Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day

Your brain needs fuel and energy so you can concentrate better at school. When you eat breakfast your brain is fully charged and you will be ready for school. However, most students don’t have time to eat breakfast because of the time school starts. When kids don’t eat they get tired a little faster. This kind of mixes in with the school times because you need time to eat breakfast, but if you don’t have time to eat breakfast schools should have little breakfast bars for students to eat to hold them before lunch so they can concentrate and do spectacular in

As we all know, everyone wants longer lunch periods because it is a time where they can socialize and don’t have to learn, but there is also another advantage to having longer lunch periods. Most people don’t know this, but having a longer lunch period allows you to receive more of the nutrients your body needs to function properly and to its’ full potential. In a report in 2014 by the School Nutrition Association, they reviewed 1001 students and found stunning information that showed,”... students with less than 20 minutes… 13 percent less of their entrees… 12 percent less of their vegetables… 10 percent less of their milk compared.. 25 mins.” (Paragraph 5, Source 3). This proves that when students have a shorter time to eat, they will not

Cause 1: What causes the poor academic performance in children due to food insecurity is that they do not eat breakfast. The saying breakfast is the most important meal of the day is not just folk lore or a buzz phrase. The article by Sheila Terry and Kimberly Kerry, “Classroom Breakfast: Helping Maryland Students Make the Grade” published in the March 2000 issue of the Maryland State Department of Education, reports that “over a two-year period, classroom breakfast schools showed a 22% improvement in that score, [MSPAP test], compared to a 13% improvement for control schools

What if there was unhealthy kids all over the world? Some kids don’t eat a nutritional breakfast everyday. Breakfast is really the most important meal of the day because your body needs energy after you wake up and it can improve your overall health.

The importance of a healthy breakfast cannot be underestimated. A child who is undernourished in the morning will not be functional for her class until lunch. Also, schools can act as supporters of positive, healthy behaviors by offering nutritious breakfasts such as fruit and yogurt, versus the fast food breakfasts some adolescents might grab, if they get breakfast at all. Many school districts are beginning earlier and earlier in the day, and students are simply not hungry enough or do not get up early enough in the morning for breakfast, leaving them starving by 10am. Being able to grab breakfast in study hall can thus prevent many potential academic and nutritional problems.

Sometimes kids don’t have time to eat breakfast in the morning because, they may be late for the bus, they get up late and don’t pick up breakfast on the way to school or leaving out of the house and their parents don’t cook. When the kids get to school they are hungry but don’t want breakfast from school because it tastes horrible.

Chapter six discusses the effects of eating healthy on youth and the various ways teachers can encourage a healthy lifestyle. In the chapter, it talks about the importance of eating breakfast (p.181). Today, many schools provide breakfast for students to either purchase or at no cost (depending on their economic status). One way schools can use this as their benefit is to provide healthy lunches. Students are often given chocolate milk, warm frozen waffles, and other not super healthy foods. Schools could provide peanut butter toast, yogurt, or egg cups. These are much healthier choices. This idea doesn’t have to stop with breakfast either. Schools can provide healthy lunches as well.

Sidaner, Balaban, & Burlandy (2013), reveal that the SBP has helped in improving both the academic achievement and cognitive achievement of most students who are in schools that have implemented the program. For instance, the program has improved nutrition of the children which in return has enhanced their cognition. There is a lot of literature that has talked about the effect of eating breakfast through the SBP on the nutrition outcomes as well as academic performance. On the other hand, some studies have revealed that lack of there is some vitamins and minerals that students in some schools that are not part of the SBP program lack, which is essential in the human body (Abotsi, 2013). Lack of these nutrients may have negative impacts on

Dubois, Girard, Potvin Kent, Farmer, and Tatone-Tokuda (2008) reported that among 1549 children, with a mean age of 49 months, 10% ate breakfast on fewer than 7 days/week. This behavior was associated with a lower diet quality and concentrated energy intakes through higher protein intakes at lunch and the consumption of snacks higher in energy and carbohydrate in the afternoon and evening. However, total daily energy intakes did not differ significantly from children who ate breakfast every day. Moreover, the BMI for the non-breakfast consumers increased as intake of energy, carbohydrates or servings of grain products increased. In fact, eating

THESIS STATEMENT: Breakfast is an essential part of your morning routine because it kickstarts your metabolism, helps you concentrate and perform better in class, and aids in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Family life did a study in 1997 and discovered that the score of standard mathematics of students who ate breakfast was 13 points higher than the students who didn’t. (Logos)

As scholars are constantly reminded to eat a healthy portion of breakfast before testing, most scholars find themselves wondering, “Would eating breakfast really improve my performance?” According to many psychologists, consuming breakfast may have benefits in performance, but to an extent. However, some have also deduced that breakfasts may also harm the performance of scholars. Nonetheless, scholars who eat a healthy breakfast seem to have higher energy levels and ability than those who did not because of the nutrients consumed and absorbed by the body and mind. Consuming breakfasts would have beneficial effects on learning, to an extent; however, the different types of breakfasts could also have detrimental effects as well. The goal of this research is to determine not if breakfasts improve academic performance, but by how much? In addition, to the fact that there are possible “side effects” to this method of improvement, which leads to ask, are all breakfasts healthy? Scholars eating breakfast in order to improve performance may be possible for academic performance. However, if scholars believe and reason over the fact that eating breakfast does improve academic performance, then the effects of school behavior would be tested. Consuming a breakfast does provide nutrients for the body and mind. However, the nutrients provided could only benefit the body and mind to such a limit. Then, there is also the

Specific Purpose: I want my audience to understand that there is time to eat breakfast in the morning and why, how and what breakfast can do to help your health.

My target area began as a focus on eating more in general. The food available at PSP was not always ideal, many times the food was either unhealthy or there simply weren’t enough options that I enjoyed. As a result, I noticed that my weight began to significantly decline and I desperately wanted to allay this problem. After completing my log sheets over three weeks, I came to the realization that the bulk of my missed meals came in the morning. I would sleep until eight to make sure that I received adequate sleep, however, I realized that in doing this; I was forgoing breakfast which was negatively affecting my health and my performance at Cornell. In fact, “research involving adults and children has indicated that breakfast might enhance memory, attention, the speed of processing information, reasoning, creativity, learning, and verbal abilities” (Consumer Reports). No matter a person’s age, breakfast is a vital part of their life.

Through many studies, breakfast has been proven to increase academic performance. “Breakfast consumption has been linked to improved preformance in mathematics, continuous performance tasks and problem solving” (Hyndman, 5). A study conducted in Canada also reports “ over 78% of teachers indicated that the program had a positive impact on the academic ability of their students” (Hyndman, 10). With these reported facts, it is obvious to see that involvement in a breakfast program would definitely yield results that could assist in solving the problem with academic achievement in our nation.