Posted October 5, 2012
BREAKFAST is an important meal, which breaks the eight hours of fasting our body undergoes while we are sleeping. During the period, the body burns calories in small amounts.
Without a good breakfast, the body will not get its supply of energy and nutrients.
School-going children must have a good breakfast to enable them to get enough nutrition to fuel their brains and bodies to be active in school.
Children who have a good breakfast have high energy and concentration levels.
Parents who do not provide breakfast for their children because of hectic work schedules are doing their children a grave injustice.
Studies have shown that children who go to school without breakfast fail to grow and develop optimally. This could lead to poor concentration and performance in their studies.
Parents have to make the time to prepare balanced and wholesome breakfasts to boost the brain functions of their children. They must also educate their children on nutrition so that they will make healthy lifestyle choices when they are older.
As the maxim goes, “one should eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and have dinner like a pauper”.
Samuel Yesuiah, Seremban, Negri Sembilan
