School Performance and Nutrition
Building good eating habits leads to better performance in school. Studies have shown that poor diets, especially diets that are too high in fats and sugars, can have a detrimental effect on behavior — particularly behaviors that can help children succeed in school. Poor eating habits can cause problems with concentration, mood, energy, and focus, and can directly impact a child’s ability to learn, not to mention that fats and sugars can cause childhood obesity.
Develop Healthy Morning Habits
Be sure to start the day off right by eating a healthy breakfast. Skipping breakfast can disrupt metabolism resulting in the same symptoms as a poor diet — and who can focus on the teacher over the rumble of a hungry belly?
Eating a healthy breakfast is part of a good morning routine. Keep it simple and nutritious, something that both you and your children can agree on. Is your family too busy for a sit down breakfast every morning? Cut up apples, a banana and some trail mix for a healthy meal that travels well. It’s easy for kids to eat during the morning commute.
A Mid-Day Habit
Beat feeling sluggish mid-day. High in sugar, sodas or soft drinks might seem like a good pick-me-up to get over the afternoon slump, but the energy boost they provide is only temporary, causing a crash to follow. Scientific research continually examines the link between refined sugar intake and hyperactivity and aggression. Simple carbohydrates like sugar, flours, and juices can all affect the body the same way. That’s why it’s important to choose whole grains, fruits, veggies, and other foods with a minimum of refined sugar.
A better snacking alternative is small amounts of proteins and carbohydrates, like natural peanut butter on celery sticks — it will provide more sustained energy to carry through to the next meal.
Healthy eating habits at home provide a good foundation for optimum performance in school.
Want to read more about how nutrition affects learning? Check out this article on nutrition and cognitive learning from the University of Mississippi.
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Thx and no thx – I’m ancient. When I was a kid, we had to pick our own wheat, stone roll it, then bake it in a wood fired oven, all before 6AM, just so I could have a sandwich for lunch. I won’t even get into how we made sandwich meat. Seriously though, you say you eat well in school – is it good cafeteria food (oxymoron)? Burgers and fries? Pizza Pizza? Or (and I wonder if I should even ask) do you make your own lunch?
Thanks for helping our kids make good choices when they choose their snacks–Children like to hear things from others, even though their family has been telling them the same thing for years–
My mother used to fix peanut butter sandwiches with nuts, raisens,coconut, chocolate chips, and sometimes even little marshmellows. We never got bored with sack lunches, and we always ate our apples down to the core. i noticed other kids would leave 1/2 eaten apples. maybe its because we had 8 kids in our family. o and by the way we always had whole wheat bread. i guess if you want to, you can, even though you are poor.
could you send me a list of your sources. I need information to write a paper to my principle about changing the food in our cafeteria.
Hi Jme 1991 We think that it is great that you want to encourage your school to be healthier. I will send you an article that appeared in our December 06 newsletter. It has relevant links for your paper. I hope that you find it helpful.
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