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Breakfast and performance in schoolchildren

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

N. H. Dickie  and
A. E. Bender
N. H. Dickie
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, Kensington, London W8 7 AH
A. E. Bender
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, Kensington, London W8 7 AH
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Abstract

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1. The results from two studies are reported of the effects on mental performance of omitting breakfast. The objective of the first study was to compare the performances of schoolchildren who habitually ate or did not eat breakfast. In the second study the effectsof omitting breakfast by those accustomed to eating the morning meal were investigated.

2. Mental performance was assessed by two short-term memory tests (a simple cancellation test in which paired letters were marked on a page of random letters) and a memory-search test in which tines containing a group of specified fetters were marked, a series of numerical additions, and an attention-demanding test (in which specified statements had to be verified).

3. Neither study revealed differences attributable to the omission or consumption of breakfast.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , November 1982 , pp. 483 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1982

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