The Most Important Meal of the Day
Introduction
Breakfast has been called the most important meal of the day, and research continually substantiates the benefits of school breakfast on improving multiple aspects of student performance. School breakfasts help to minimize the effects of socioeconomic disparities, allowing all students to have equal access to the tools they need to achieve academic goals. Moreover, eating breakfast can reduce rates of childhood obesity and inculcate healthy eating habits into children (United States Department of Agriculture, n.d.). Community nurses can help promote a school breakfast program by stimulating compliance and interest in breakfast among all students.
Grades and Attendance Outcomes
Research shows that children who eat breakfast outperform children who skip breakfast. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (n.d.), “eating breakfast can help improve math, reading, and standardized test scores,” (p. 1). The correlation between eating breakfast and test score improvements are not just related to socioeconomic class and other contextual variables but to the link between breakfast nutrition and cognitive performance. Children who eat breakfast have longer and more focused attention spans, perform better on most problem-solving skills and tasks, and exhibit better memory performance too (United...
References
Bakies, K. (2014). The breakfast benefit. US News and World Report. Retrieved online: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/10/20/the-breakfast-benefit-why-schools-should-make-morning-meals-a-priority
United States Department of Agriculture (n.d.). Benefits of breakfast. Retrieved online: https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/toolkit_benefitsflyer.pdf
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