Background: The breakfast is the most important meal of the day that its regular consumption is effective on individuals' physical, psychological and social health. Given the high prevalence of irregular consumption of breakfast among students, this study has been designed to investigate breakfast consumption behavior and its related factors within social cognitive theory framework.Materials an...

introduction: breakfast is repeatedly called to as the most important meal of the day and has positive effects on nutritional profile, cognitive activities and disease prevention in schoolchildren. the aim of this study was to assess the eating breakfast status in a sample of primary students of ilam city. materials and methods: participants of this cross-sectional study were 298 schoolchildren...

23 24 25 26 2 Abstract 1 COOPER, S. B., S. BANDELOW AND M. E. NEVILL. Breakfast consumption and cognitive 2 function in adolescent schoolchildren. PHYSIOL BEHAV xx (x), xxx-xxx, 2010. 3 This study examined the effects of breakfast consumption on cognitive function, mood and blood 4 glucose concentration in adolescent schoolchildren. 5 With the institutions ethical advisory committee approval, 9...

This study examined the effects of breakfast consumption on cognitive function, mood and blood glucose concentration in adolescent schoolchildren. With the institution's ethical advisory committee approval, 96 adolescents (12 to 15 years old) completed two randomly assigned trials (one following breakfast consumption and one following breakfast omission), scheduled 7 days apart. Cognitive funct...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND The benefits of breakfast during childhood and adolescence have been reported previously though few studies have considered family structure inequalities in breakfast consumption. The proportion of young people living in non-traditional family types has increased in recent years, strengthening the need to describe and monitor the impact of the changing family unit on adolescent break...

BACKGROUND Breakfast consumption is important to health; however, adolescents often skip breakfast, and an increased understanding of the breakfast consumption patterns of adolescents is needed. The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of breakfast eating, including the content and context, in an adolescent sample from Australia and England. METHODS Four-hundred and eighty-one...

OBJECTIVE Breakfast consumption has been consistently associated with health outcomes and cognitive functioning in schoolchildren. Evidence of direct links with educational outcomes remains equivocal. We aimed to examine the link between breakfast consumption in 9-11-year-old children and educational outcomes obtained 6-18 months later. DESIGN Data on individual-level free school meal entitle...