NEW FROM FRAC: Breakfast for Health
In addition to fighting hunger, school breakfast is one of the most important contributors to a child’s health and well-being. Breakfast for Health (pdf), a new brief from FRAC, summarizes research on the strong links between school breakfast consumption and favorable dietary, health, and educational outcomes among children and adolescents. Research shows that:
A companion piece to FRAC’s Breakfast for Learning (pdf), Breakfast for Health provides an easy-to-read summary of research for advocates to use in their breakfast expansion work.
- School breakfast participation improves children’s dietary intake.
- School breakfast decreases the risk of food insecurity.
- School breakfast may protect against childhood obesity.
- School breakfast participation protects against other negative health outcomes.
- School breakfast helps improve children’s academic performance, whereas skipping breakfast and experiencing hunger impair development and learning.
- Breakfast in the classroom programs and programs offering breakfast free to all children in the cafeteria yield other positive results for health and learning.
About Us: The Food Research and Action Center (www.frac.org) is the leading national organization working for more effective public and private policies to eradicate domestic hunger and undernutrition. Visit our Web site (www.frac.org) to learn more.
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