New Study Reveals the Importance of a Healthy Breakfast

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You may have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but new research from Cardiff University finds a direct link between kids who eat a quality breakfast and their educational attainment.

The landmark study reveals that students who ate breakfast were twice as likely to have higher academic outcomes. The study looked at 5000 students ages 9 to 11 years of age from more than 100 primary schools.  Researchers examined the longitudinal effects of the link between breakfast consumption and educational outcomes.

The study also showed significant differences of educational performance between students who ate sweets or crisps versus students who ate fruit and vegetables, revealing that eating sweets for breakfast had no positive impact on educational attainment.

Dr. Graham Moore, co-author of the report stated in an article, “Linking our data to real world educational performance data has allowed us to provide robust evidence of a link between eating breakfast and doing well at school. There is, therefore, good reason to believe that where schools are able to find ways of encouraging those young people who don’t eat breakfast at home to eat a school breakfast, they will reap significant educational benefits.”

What a student eats does have an impact on how well they do in school. Latino kids, who are more likely to have unhealthy items at school as snacks and breakfast foods, need a variety of healthy options. The free and reduced lunch and breakfast movements provided by many public schools offer healthy breakfasts options and may help the future educational outcomes for Latino students.

To learn more about this study, click here.