OBJECTIVES To outline the prevalence and disparities of breakfast consumption among school-aged urban minority youth, causal pathways through which skipping breakfast adversely affects academic achievement, and proven or promising approaches for schools to increase breakfast consumption. METHODS Literature review. RESULTS On any given day a substantial proportion of American youth do not ea...

INTRODUCTION Socioeconomic context and family dynamics are determining factors when considering eating habits and nutritional status among students. It has been demonstrated that skipping breakfast or having a light breakfast has an unfavorable impact on nutritional status. OBJETIVE To establish a relationship among breakfast, sociodemographic outcome measures, and nutritional status among st...

BACKGROUND To assess the association of eating meals, and never watching TV while eating meals, with weight status among children, ages 10-12 years across Europe. METHODS 7915 children (mean age: 11.5 years) in eight European countries (Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland) completed a questionnaire at school. Data on meals eaten the day before qu...

Studies show an inverse relationship between breakfast frequency and weight gain. This may reflect poor eating habits generally and associated low physical activity (PA) or direct impacts of breakfast on mechanisms leading to lethargy and reduced PA. The relationship between breakfast frequency and PA is inconclusive. We aimed to determine whether breakfast frequency is associated with PA level...

BACKGROUND The association between skipping breakfast and cardio-metabolic syndrome is well known. However, there are very few Korean studies about the habit of eating breakfast and hypertension. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the habit of eating breakfast and hypertension in a healthy Korean population. METHODS Participants in the 2014 Korea National Health a...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify cognitive and environmental correlates of daily adolescent breakfast consumption. METHODS Adolescents (n=1089) aged 12-15 years in schools in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, completed a questionnaire measuring daily breakfast consumption, individual cognitions, and home environmental factors during the 2005-2006 school year. Multilevel logistic regression an...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between breakfast type, energy intake and body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized not only that breakfast consumption itself is associated with BMI, but that the type of food eaten at breakfast also affects BMI. METHODS Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), a large, population...

BACKGROUND The assessment of satiety effects on foods is commonly performed by untrained volunteers marking their perceived hunger or fullness on line scales, marked with pre-set descriptors. The lack of reproducibility of satiety measurement using this approach however results in the tool being unable to distinguish between foods that have small, but possibly important, differences in their sa...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that promoting breakfast cereal consumption, as part of a web-based programme, results in loss of body mass. METHODS Single centre, single blind, randomised parallel study. Test group followed a fully interactive website (B) with 'prescribed' breakfast cereals. Control group followed website (A) giving standard advice on weight loss.Study site visits at 0, 4, ...