{"id":88438,"date":"2018-03-15T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/large-numbers-of-students-skipping-breakfast\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:36:47","slug":"large-numbers-of-students-skipping-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/large-numbers-of-students-skipping-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Numbers of Students Skipping Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychology<\/a> Large Numbers of Students Skipping\u2026<\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Published: March 14, 2018.
Released by University of Waterloo<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite widespread availability of morning meal programs, a large number of Canadian students are still skipping breakfast, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n

The study looked at the eating habits of 42,000 students from 87 secondary schools in Alberta and Ontario during the 2014\/15 school year. It found that 39 percent of students reported eating breakfast fewer than three days in a typical school week.<\/p>\n

The findings were consistent with national data that showed nationwide, 48.5 percent of adolescents skipped breakfast at least once a week.<\/p>\n

“In spite of the widely-acknowledged value of youth having a healthy morning meal, breakfast skipping is highly prevalent among Canadian adolescents,” said Katelyn Godin, a doctoral candidate at Waterloo and lead author of the study. “While we do know that breakfast programs are having a positive impact, with one-fifth of adolescents reporting eating breakfast at school once-a-week, there is still room for improvement.”<\/p>\n

Godin said breakfast programs are not reaching their full potential in Canada due to a lack of social awareness about their diverse benefits, lingering social stigma and limited economic support for the programs.<\/p>\n

“Canadian breakfast programs are currently supported by a patchwork of funding and would benefit from something more consistent,” said Godin.<\/p>\n

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Psychology Large Numbers of Students Skipping\u2026 Published: March 14, 2018.Released by University of Waterloo\u00a0\u00a0 Despite widespread availability of morning meal programs, a large number of Canadian students are still skipping breakfast, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The study looked at the eating habits of 42,000 students from 87 secondary schools in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}