The quote between your two selected lines > One of the reasons that breakfast seems to improve children’s learning and progress is that, unfortunately, too man

The quote between your two selected lines > One of the reasons that breakfast seems to improve children’s learning and progress is that, unfortunately, too many don’t get enough to eat. [...] It’s not hard to imagine that children who are hungry will do better if they are nourished. Seems a pretty valid point as opposed to handwaving. Nutrition research in general has a pretty studious history of ignoring results in an attempt to support pre-existing conclusions. For support of last statement, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-ration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-ration (side note: military nutrition has a long and interesting involvement with civilian nutrition guidelines)