Breakfast and Students' Attention Span

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This paper discusses the relationship between eating breakfast and school performance. It discusses how bodily health affects the attention span of students and the negative effects that being hungry has on students and their academic performance. The paper analyzes the literature in order to gain a complete understanding of the issues involved.

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"The present survey indicated that Australian students skipped breakfast more on the basis of gender than income (Shaw 1998). Female students did so thrice as much as male students did. It would, then, seem to be the product of personal choice rather than by socioeconomic level. Gender and cultural values would also influence that personal choice. This should engage the attention and priority of policymakers and health authorities. The skipping breakfast phenomenon should be seen as a result of poverty as well as a gender issue. Feeding programs will not help those who skip breakfast for vanity reasons. Teaching students the importance of eating breakfast can decrease or discourage the habit. Instead, they should b taught how to build self-esteem and healthful ways of controlling weight. Nonetheless, these students cannot be easily separated or warned against their prevailing social and cultural environment in the attempt to develop the new attitude. Further longitudinal investigations, involving the use of a variety of methods, should be conducted to cover other, but equally, significant areas (Shaw)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Basiotis (1999). Eating Breakfast Greatly Improves Schoolchildren's Diet Quality. 3 pages. Family Economics and Nutrition Review: Superintendent of Documents
• Jet (1997). A Healthy Breakfast is Key to a Child's Good Day. 2 pages. Johnson Publishing Company: Gale Group
• Liebman, B. (1999). The Great Breakfast Debate. 2 pages. Nutrition Action Healthletter: Center for Science in the Public Interest.
• School Administration (2002). Breakfast Impact. American Association of School Administrators: Gale Group
• Shaw, M. E. (1998). Adolescent Breakfast Skipping: an Australian Study. 7 pages. Adolescence: Libra Publishers, Inc.

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