Why Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day?
Good morning to the principal of SK Pekan, teachers and students. I am Ridhwan Hanafi, one of the alumni in SK Pekan. I am here to present a talk on the topic “Why Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day”, in conjunction with SK Pekan’s Entrepreneurship Day. The main purpose of this talk is to make you realize about the importance of taking breakfast, and how it affects positively on your overall health and academic performances. Before going further, I would like to share with you what breakfast actually means. Breakfast actually means to ‘break your fast’. ‘Fast’ means you don’t eat food, because during the night, you are sleeping and not eating anything (“Breakfast – A Great Way to Start the Day!”, 2013), hence you are considered
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However, how exactly does having breakfast gives you energy? Well, having breakfast could refill your body’s supply of glucose and it could give you some extra nutrition that you need (“Breakfast”, 2012). Glucose is another word for sugar that is inside our body (Norqvist, 2014), which acts as our body’s food source to give us energy. Therefore, having breakfast not only provides you with energy, it makes you less tardy (Zelman, n.d.) and happy to go to school! A study from Berkey et al. (2003) states that children who never had breakfast have lower energy than children who had breakfast nearly every day, and those who had breakfast reported that they had better quality of schoolwork. Having energy before going to school is important, because if you do not have breakfast you will feel drowsy and lethargic. What types of food gives you energy? Any food could give you enough energy to function for the day, for example whole meal toast, cereals, and eggs (“Breakfast – A Great Way to Start the Day!”, 2013). You can also have fruits and vegetables for breakfast like apples, oranges and …show more content…
An extensive research in Australia and other countries has also found that those who have breakfast have a more nutritious diet than those who do not take their breakfast (“Breakfast”, 2012). Even though you eat lunch and dinner but skip breakfast, you will still lose some vitamins and nutrients that your body needs to absorb during the
However, how exactly does having breakfast gives you energy? Well, having breakfast could refill your body’s supply of glucose and it could give you some extra nutrition that you need (“Breakfast”, 2012). Glucose is another word for sugar that is inside our body (Norqvist, 2014), which acts as our body’s food source to give us energy. Therefore, having breakfast not only provides you with energy, it makes you less tardy (Zelman, n.d.) and happy to go to school! A study from Berkey et al. (2003) states that children who never had breakfast have lower energy than children who had breakfast nearly every day, and those who had breakfast reported that they had better quality of schoolwork. Having energy before going to school is important, because if you do not have breakfast you will feel drowsy and lethargic. What types of food gives you energy? Any food could give you enough energy to function for the day, for example whole meal toast, cereals, and eggs (“Breakfast – A Great Way to Start the Day!”, 2013). You can also have fruits and vegetables for breakfast like apples, oranges and …show more content…
An extensive research in Australia and other countries has also found that those who have breakfast have a more nutritious diet than those who do not take their breakfast (“Breakfast”, 2012). Even though you eat lunch and dinner but skip breakfast, you will still lose some vitamins and nutrients that your body needs to absorb during the