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The advice that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is, as I recall, based on similar junk science. They looked at lots of kids, recorded how ofte
by pbiggar 11y ago
The advice that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is, as I recall, based on similar junk science. They looked at lots of kids, recorded how often they ate breakfast, then looked at how well they did in school.
The kids who ate breakfast did better in school. Yay, breakfast is good for you.
Or, possibly, the correlation between eating breakfast and doing well in school has another explanation. One possible explanation of the correlation is that kids who don't eat breakfast are poor, and the poor statistically dont do as well in school due to other factors.
- sanxiyn 11y agoCan you find this study? Many studies are dodgy, but I am incredulous the study was this much dodgy. How can the study observing grade not controlling for socioeconomic status ever pass the review?
- dingaling 11y agoDuring my sojourn with Her Majesty's Forces we were never permitted to skip breakfast. Never, regardless of the conditions or schedule. Other meals could drift through the day but breakfast was fixed and immovable.