Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/SCayESaafFI   Regularly eating breakfasts versus skipping them lifts a teen’s grade average from a C to an A.  The UK’s University of Leeds investigators tabulated the breakfasting habits of 294 16-18 year olds with their scores on standardized tests.  The test scores were converted to letter grades.   Of the participant group, 53% ate breakfasts regularly but 29% never ate them.  The participants grades on General Certificate of Secondary Education achievement tests, so-called GCSE exams, provided a measure of their academic prowess.   Far too many students at all grade levels in both the UK and the USA arrive at school deprived of a nourishing breakfast.  Families must make this meal a priority.   Katie Adolphus, Clare L. Lawton, Louise Dye. Associations Between Habitual School-Day Breakfast Consumption Frequency and Academic Performance in British Adolescents. Frontiers in Public Health, 2019; 7 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00283   #Breakfast #grades #highschool #math #English #parent