Healthy Breakfast

1. Breakfast and Health

2. Breakfast is the MOST important Meal
of the Day
• Support or Refute this claim.

3. Nutrients
• People who eat breakfast get more vitamins,
minerals, fiber, and food group foods from
what they eat.

4. Improved Health
• Lifelong breakfast eaters have:
– Lower “bad” LDL and total cholesterol;
– Lower risk of diabetes;
– Improved bone health;
– Increased physical energy.

5. Cognitive and Academic Performance
• Positive link between eating breakfast and:
– Improving memory;
– Improved test grades;
– School attendance;
– Psychosocial function;
– Mood.

6. • Breakfast eaters:
– More successful at losing weight and maintaining
weight loss;
– Tend to overeat less during the day – avoid fatty
and sugary foods more often.
Healthy Body Weight

7. Roadblocks to Eating Breakfast
• Time
• Not hungry
• Not convenient
• Forgot
• Not sure what to eat

8. Motivators that Work
• Eating breakfast can help:
– Increase physical energy;
– Increase mental focus;
– Maintain a healthy body weight;
– Maintain good health.

9. Strategies to Make it Easier to Enjoy a
Healthful Breakfast
• QUICK, nutritious and tasty options;
• Tasty, untraditional ideas;
• “On-the-go” options;

10. Strategies to Make it Easier to Enjoy a
Healthful Breakfast
• Adult role models;
• Prepare;
• Have something small;
• Participate in school breakfast program.

11. Breakfast is the MOST important Meal
of the Day
• Use the above information to support or
refute this claim. Did your opinion change?

12. Breakfast Goal
• What will YOU do to encourage eating a
healthy breakfast for you and your students?

13. For more information…
http://ific.org
International Food Information Council
Foundation