Classroom Breakfast: Helping Maryland Students

One in four American children live in food-insecure households, meaning that they lack adequate access to food of any type, not just food with significant nutritional value (Ford, 2013, p. 58). As these families are the most likely to have children who both leave for and return home from school to an empty house, they are also the most likely to have children who prepare meals for themselves. Often, children fail to nourish themselves, skipping meals when they are running late or because they find nothing in the pantry they are capable of preparing. These students ready themselves (and sometimes siblings) for school and frequently don’t take their first meal until mid-day, losing precious hours of instructional time to distraction over food, fatigue due to low levels of nourishment, and other physical ailments tied to poor nutrition. If school breakfasts were free and readily available to all public school students, morning meals would be

Based on research, delivering breakfast to the classroom and dispersing it there will be our school’s method. “There is substantial evidence that serving breakfast in the classroom (as opposed to in the cafeteria) increases participation in the School

Children who regularly skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight, have difficulty paying attention in the classroom, perform poorly on tasks requiring concentration, and achieve

Many children do not eat a nutritious breakfast every morning. Often families are living on very tight budgets and can't afford to provide good breakfasts at home every day nor the money to buy them at school. Regardless of income, families today live busy lives that often make

Thomas Edison, a world-renowned inventor, once said: “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition” (Norton). While medicines and antibiotics can be very useful in certain situations, nutrition is key in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. However, many students cannot maintain a healthy lifestyle due to a lack of nutrition in school foods. In order to solve this problem, stricter standards must be implemented into school lunch and breakfast programs. To effectively improve the nutritional value of foods offered by both primary and secondary schools, stricter legislation must be enforced by the United States Government.

It has been noted that this meal and snack program is currently being presented in both public and private schools, as well as in various community-based establishments, giving the access of healthy foods to a wide range of children of various family backgrounds (Breakfast for Learning, 2014, p.1-2; De Wit, 2012, p. 1). Moreover, studies have been conducted to demonstrate the actual

Poor children who don't eat a nourishing breakfast will not be able to pay attention in class and so they may become fidgety and may disrupt the class. Poverty often drastically affects children’s success in school. These students are at a disadvantage

Unfortunately, the important of breakfast is taken for granted by today's students. There are some students who do not want to eat breakfast before school. The results somebody will faint when standing up in the morning assembly. Breakfast is a must to fuel during learning. Without breakfast how they might want to focus on learning throughout the day. If we refer to the article Regular breakfast - a healthy habit in childhood and beyond, Benton D, Parker PY. (1998) conducted a survey, early research studies reported positive effects of taking breakfast on performance indicators including memory recall, attention span, and creativity regarding doing

A lot of people especially teens just wake up in last minutes with sleepy eyes and rushing for work or school in the earlier morning without any food. Many of you will think that is not so important to having meal in the morning and decide to ignore or overlook this routine. A past member of the American Academy of Pediatric’s Committee on Nutrition and vice chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of the Geisinger Clinic in Danville, Pa, named William Cochran, M.D., FAAP, he said that the percentage of all school-aged kids skip breakfast is about 8 to 12 percent and approximate 20 to 30 percent of kids totally missed their breakfast when they enter adolescence or teen. Children always have plenty of excuses to skip breakfast especially older teens. They are busy with homework, activities, entertainment or even part-time jobs until late night. They go to bed late, then get up and rush off to school, and feel annoying to eat. End up will say not enough time for having their

NEED: Surveys show that at least half of a normal college class skips breakfast at least 2-3 days a week. Therefore, I will not only focus on why breakfast is so important, and the

This paper intends to inform the reader about the history of breakfast and how it came to exist in the form in which it is consumed today; while also bringing to light the importance of breakfast, despite limitations due to time, particularly among young students and working people (millennials), by bringing forth the benefits of eating in the mornings, and also building relationships and connecting through meals.

The research has found that children are not getting enough essential nutrients in their breakfast diets, so providing them with sufficient vitamin enriched foods can enhance academic scores. Consequently, school-age children who do not skip breakfast and eat a low-glycemic, balanced breakfast will have better concentration and will show appropriate reactions to stressful situations than students who decide to fast (Adolphus et al., 2013). The students who ate breakfast maintain better concentration levels than students who skipped breakfast and children who eat breakfast regularly improved memory, had fewer signs of disgruntlement when working on school assignments and overall perform better than their peers who skip eating before attending school. The studies are also showing that children who habitually ate breakfast have lower body mass index (BMI) scores (Bruening, Larson, Story, Sztainer, & Hannan, 2011).

We always hear our parents say, “Eat breakfast so you can do well in school today.” However is what they say is really true? My research topic is, “Does eating breakfast really help students do better in school?” I chose this topic because I am not really a breakfast person. However, every morning my parents force me to eat breakfast so “my brain can wake up”.

The saying “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is nothing short of the truth, though do the students and teachers at the Krum High School know that? If students and faculty knew the importance of a healthy breakfast, would it influence their choices? This paper will discuss these research questions through a survey where students answer questions to determine if they understand and are aware of the food choices they make for breakfast.

During the duration of my community placement it became very evident that many high school students skip breakfast in the mornings. As more and more student’s came into the nurse’s office with headaches, stomach aches, feeling fatigued, not being able to focus in class, or dealing with stress we began to look a little deeper and discovered that the vast majority of these students did not eat breakfast. Students said they did not eat due to lack of time, money, parents are not home to get them breakfast, morning practices, simply don’t want to eat, or they would rather sleep in than eat breakfast. “Breakfast has earned the title of the most important meal of the day, yet it is the meal most often missed” (Affenito, 2007). When students consume breakfast studies show that they have overall better nutritional quality within