The Relationship between Habitual Breakfast Consumption Frequency and Academic Performance in British Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Breakfast has been shown to be beneficial for cognitive and academic performance in school children. However, there is a paucity of studies which examine the relationship between breakfast consumption and academic performance and a complete absence of studies in UK school children. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine the association between habitual breakfast consumption frequency and Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) performance, a reasoning test routinely used in UK schools. Adolescents aged 11-13 years (n = 292; males: 53.8%) completed a questionnaire to report usual weekly breakfast intake frequency. Breakfast was subjectively defined by the participants. Habitual weekly breakfast consumption frequency was categorized as rare (0-2 days), occasional (3-4 days), or frequent (5-

SUBMITTER: Adolphus K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4421928 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature