Children Who Have No Breakfast
Abstract
Considers the importance of breakfast in relation to maintaining concentration at school and optimum growth, as well as in protecting against coronary heart disease in the future. Provides a description of a survey of five‐to eight‐year‐olds in seven inner‐city low income schools in Southampton where 5 per cent of children were found to have no breakfast. Only 20 per cent of children had a satisfactory breakfast in terms of protein and energy requirements – the most common satisfactory breakfast being cereal with milk plus a milk drink.
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Citation
Box, V. and Landman, J. (1994), "Children Who Have No Breakfast", Health Education, Vol. 94 No. 4, pp. 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654289410064381
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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