BACKGROUND Regular breakfast consumption has several health benefits. However, breakfast skipping is common among adolescents, in particular among those with a low socioeconomic background. The aims of the study were to explore individual and home environmental correlates of breakfast consumption, and to assess their potential mediating role in the association between parental education and bre...

OBJECTIVE Although breakfast is associated with different benefits, breakfast skipping is increasingly common among children. This study aimed to identify lifestyle and socioeconomic correlates of breakfast skipping in Hong Kong schoolchildren. METHODS 68,606 primary 4 participants of the Department of Health Student Health Service in 1998-2000 reported breakfast habit and other lifestyle cha...

Background: Children who regularly eat breakfast have enough energy to receive lessons at school than children skip breakfast. often show weakness, dizziness or fainting. These things really do not support the learning process because concentration is disturbed. In activities, plays an important role in achieving a conducive atmosphere it reflects children's cognitive abilities.
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Objective: Much of the previous research on breakfast skipping and its associations with disordered eating, obesity, and depression has been limited by the use of different definitions “breakfast skipping.” The present study examines breakfast skipping and its associations with these negative health correlates in the Add Health Wave III sample of adolescents and young adults using all the defin...

AIMS There is no standardized protocol for measuring glycemic index (GI) that takes time-of-day effects into account. The software DegifXL2 and Medtronic-Minimed's CGMS and Solutions, makes the GI calculation at breakfast and dinner time possible. The aim of this study was to assess the enhanced data processing software (DegifXL4) enabling the GI calculation at breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack...

BACKGROUND The association between breakfast consumption and physical activity (PA) is inconclusive. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate daily associations and hourly patterns of PA and breakfast consumption in British adolescents. DESIGN Daily PA [accelerometry-derived moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA)] and breakfast consumption (diet diary) were measured simultaneously over 4 d...

BACKGROUND Few studies on the breakfast consumption habits of medical students in China have been carried out. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of skipping breakfast and factors associated with skipping breakfast among medical students in Inner Mongolia of China, and to assist in the design of interventions to improve breakfast consumption habits of medical college s...

Breakfast is recommended as part of a healthy diet because it is associated with healthier macro- and micronutrient intakes, BMI and lifestyle. Breakfast is also widely promoted to improve cognitive function and academic performance, leading to the provision of breakfast initiatives by public health bodies. Despite this positive and intuitive perception of cognitive benefits, there has been no ...

Previous systematic reviews on the relation between overweight or obesity and breakfast focused on the frequency of consumption and only partially accounted for breakfast nutritional profiles. Given the central role of these factors, we conducted a systematic review of the literature on this putative relation, with a specific focus on breakfast energy intake and/or breakfast composition. Among ...

Objectives: This study examined the associations between lifestyle factors and obesity among university students.Methods: In this cross-sectional correlational study, 671 students completed measures of (dietary habit, exercise, smoking, alcohol drinking), health concern, academic stress, anthropometric indices. Obesity was classified by body mass index (BMI) abdominal circumference (AC). The da...