The nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals is not systematically monitored despite the importance of breakfast for general health. We examined whether the nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals has improved between 2004 and 2010, and whether any change could be detected after the introduction of Daily Intake Guide (DIG) front-of-pack labelling. Supermarket surveys were...

The study examined the influence of dietary practices on academic performance boarding school adolescents. sample consisted 264 selected students from forms one, two and three, respectively. A multistage sampling procedure was adopted in selection respondents structured questionnaire main instrument for data collection. Cronbach’s alpha reliability 0.82. Data were quantitatively analysed using ...

OBJECTIVE this study aimed to evaluate the association of breakfast intake with cardiometabolic risk factors in a nationally-representative sample of Iranian pediatrics. METHODS the study participants considered of 5,625 school students aged 10-18 years, studied in the third survey of the national school-based surveillance system (CASPIAN-III). They were classified into three groups based on ...

Breakfast skipping is a health concern that has well-known negative consequences physically and psychologically. It is therefore important to understand why children skip breakfast. The purpose of this study was to establish whether the experience of bullying and cyberbullying impacts upon breakfast skipping and to further evaluate whether the inability for youths to cope with bullying victimiz...

A preliminary study of 10 Alue Buloh students showed that 8 them did not know the benefits breakfast and impact having overall they had mistaken perceptions about proper nutritional intake for their morning activities. The purpose this was to investigate effect education through animated video media on behavior in elementary school children. research design used quasi experiment, with a pre-tes...

The provision of school breakfast has become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years. However, UK-based studies highlighting the views of parents, children, and school staff on school breakfast clubs are lacking. The current study set out to address this dearth in the literature by investigating the views of these key user and stakeholder groups on breakfast clubs within the North East o...

Skipping breakfast is considered to be an unhealthy eating habit linked to predispositions to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Because eating dinner late at night can elicit subsequent breakfast skipping, we investigated if skipping breakfast concomitant with late-night-dinner eating (LNDE) was associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and proteinuria in the general Japanese population. We examined...

BACKGROUND Activated factor VII (FVIIa) is a very potent coagulant and may be a key determinant of the outcome of a cardiovascular event. The main determinants of FVIIa are the R353Q polymorphism and dietary fat intake, which may have an interactive effect. OBJECTIVE The objective was to investigate whether the response of FVIIa to a fat-rich breakfast varies across genotypes of the R353Q pol...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Millets are rich source of dietary fibre and non-starchy polysaccharides with low glycaemic index (GI), hence can be used as a therapeutic diet. This study was conducted to estimate the effects of a millet-based dosa (foxtail dosa) compared to a rice dosa for breakfast on postprandial glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS The GI of ri...

Circulating concentrations of the orexigenic hormone ghrelin show a postprandial decrease in dependence on meal size and composition. Cognitive determinants of postprandial ghrelin suppression in humans are largely unexplored. We assessed the effects of cued meal anticipation on pre- and postprandial concentrations of total plasma ghrelin, pancreatic polypeptide and leptin as well as on markers...