Is It Necessary for Students to Eat Breakfast
Is It Necessary for Students to Eat Breakfast According to a recent study of 700 ninth graders in Louisiana who completed a 24-hour recall of dietary intake, "both girls (23%) and boys (14%) skipped breakfast. Overall, results showed that 19% of the students skipped breakfast"(Zullig 6). There are some excuses for students who are not have breakfast. Some students who stay up late to study at night choose to miss breakfast so that they can have a few extra minutes in bed. Others feel not hungry in the morning. In addition, a few schoolgirls want to stay slim and often go to school without breakfast. In fact, Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. As the saying goes, have a king's breakfast, have a common people's lunch, and a beggar's dinner. Although students do not have enough time to eat breakfast, students should not only have breakfast, but also care about its quality because it keeps students healthy both mentally and physically. The first reason for eating breakfast is because breakfast is the energy source of brain activity that students need food for to do well in their classes. Without eating breakfast, body can not supply enough blood sugar for consumption. Students’ body and their brain are not going to function as good as they could because they have no energy and no strength. When students try to learn something and have nothing in their stomach, they are going to have a lot of trouble succeeding. A lot of students think that they should not eat because they are going to feel tired, but that’s not true. According to Ujwal, The main reason as to why students feel tired is explained below. "Feeling tired after eating is usual when [students] consume food stuffs that have large volumes of sugar and flour in them such as bakery or sweet food items.
Presence of excess sugar in [their] body results into increase in the blood sugar level. This further leads the pancreas to produce more insulin and release it into the blood stream of