Contents:
- Medical Video: What Will Happen If You Start Eating Oats Every Day
- Why do children have to eat breakfast every day?
- 1. Your little one needs energy after his stomach is empty overnight
- 2. Children who have breakfast have better concentration and focus
- 3. A healthy breakfast menu is needed for your child to improve his academic performance
- 4. Children must have breakfast so they are not overweight
Medical Video: What Will Happen If You Start Eating Oats Every Day
Does your child always have breakfast in the morning before he does his activities? Many parents let their children not eat breakfast. In fact, without realizing this this will have an impact on his health. So important, even experts say that consuming a healthy breakfast menu is a 'daily ritual' that is mandatory and should not be missed, especially at an early age.
Why do children have to eat breakfast every day?
1. Your little one needs energy after his stomach is empty overnight
The basic thing that is the reason why children should have breakfast every morning is to meet their energy needs. Actually, everyone - no exception - should have breakfast before starting to move. Because, breakfast is the capital for the body to move after not eating anything overnight.
After almost 12 hours of not consuming anything, our bodies, especially the brain, need food to make it work properly.
2. Children who have breakfast have better concentration and focus
Maybe many parents are afraid of their children drowsy at school if previously given breakfast. In fact, on the contrary, children who do not have breakfast will experience fatigue in school and this will reduce their concentration.
Even experts also believe that this will affectthe mood in school and of course this will make it more difficult to receive lessons at school.
3. A healthy breakfast menu is needed for your child to improve his academic performance
Breakfast or not, can affect your child's performance at school. Yes, experts revealed that breakfast can increase your child's performance up to 4.5 times better. In fact this has been proven in international and national research. One of them is research conducted on elementary school children in Bali. In this research, it is known that children who have adequate nutritional breakfast habits have better performance than children who do not eat breakfast.
4. Children must have breakfast so they are not overweight
Not only cognitive abilities and achievements that are getting better, health status will also be maintained can children have breakfast every day. Children will avoid obesity, which is currently very vulnerable to school-age children in Indonesia.
If the child does not eat first in the morning, then when he eats lunch, he will feel very hungry and eventually consume twice as much food as he should. If this keeps happening and parents cannot control their children's food intake, obesity will occur.
Obesity itself is very associated with various non-communicable diseases.
Yes, children who are overweight or obese have a greater chance of developing heart disease, diabetes, kidney function disorders, and strokes later on. Don't want to make your child have a risk like this?
