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Parent Tips for Healthy Kids
Breakfast and Teens' Brains
Want to give your teen a head start to higher grades in school? Bring on
the breakfast, say nutrition experts. A study found that skipping breakfast
has no negative effect on teens’ attention spans in high school; however,
students reported feeling more alert after eating breakfast.
Although consuming breakfast did not have any effect on the teens’ ability
to sustain attention, it did make them feel more alert afterward. The boys
who ate breakfast fared even better: their moods improved after eating their
morning meal, and they scored better on memory tests than they did after
fasting.
“With an increasing number of children and adolescents
skipping breakfast, there is a need for scientific studies evaluating
whether omission of breakfast affects the cognitive functioning and mood of
fasting students,” the researchers concluded.
Source: IDEA Fitness Journal, April 2009, Page 51
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