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Breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day and skipping having it away from home could impact a child’s behavioural health.
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Adolescents who eat breakfast at home have fewer behavioural problems.
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Adolescents who eat breakfast at home have fewer behavioural problems.
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The survey had 5 subscales —emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, prosocial behavior.
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Scores in each area were taken into consideration and a higher overall score highlighted psycho-social problems in children and teens.
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Kids were divided into 3 categories with regards to where and whether they ate — at home, away from home or had no breakfast.
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Out of the 98.9% who ate breakfast, 95.8% ate at home.
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Adolescents who skipped breakfast or ate outside of the home had a higher likelihood of psycho-social problems.
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"Eating outside of the home has been related to energy-dense and high fat food consumption, as well as a lack of micronutrients, which could (at least partially) explain this finding,” said Dr. Jose Francisco Lopez-Gil of University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca, Spain.
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