In their study researchers found that those students who skipped breakfast or had it inconsistently were more than twice as likely to be overweight or obese compared with students who ate double breakfasts.
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“When it comes to the relationship between school breakfast and body weight, our study suggests that two breakfasts are better than none”, said co-researcher Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of CT. Kids, you’ve got to eat your breakfast as mom probably tells you.
Research has long shown that breakfast can improve cognitive function, and because a lot of American children-a shocking 22 percent of them-live in poverty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has offered grants to provide “nutritionally needy” children with free breakfast at school for a half-century.
Although the authors of the current study said that there were some rowing concerns about unhealthy weight gain for students who eat two breakfasts. Between none, one, and two breakfasts eaten every day, eating none had the highest chance of leading to obesity.
A new study has found out that students who eat two breakfasts are less likely to become overweight or obese than those kids who do not eat breakfast at all.
Attempting to prove how bad of an idea cutting breakfast from school cafeterias is, a team of researchers from the United States showed that two breakfasts are better than none for students.
Indeed, the study was inspired in part by real-world concerns that school breakfast programs might promote obesity, says Schwartz.
The weight changes for pupils who ate double breakfasts was no different than the weight changes measured for all of the other students.
Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and the University of CT were able to discover new evidences that may help seal the deal of policy-making efforts concerning daily school breakfast provision.
While airtight explanations for these findings are still elusive, researchers speculated that the kids who ate breakfast at school-whether they’d already eaten at home or not-might have a more “healthy weight trajectory” than the breakfast-abstainers because the latter were more likely to eat unhealthy foods in the evening, when there was less opportunity to burn off the excess calories. One-third of the kids between 6 and 11 are either overweight or obese and everyone is working to find solutions to these problems.
The study came as a result of several officials, including New York’s old mayor Michael Bloomberg, claiming that allowing children to have breakfast at school would only contribute to the obesity rates that are ever-increasing in the country. School breakfasts are generally healthy, including dairy, whole grains, and fruit, and may be free or subsidized.
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The study was published on Thursday in the journal Pediatric Obesity.
