NPR – Tracie McMillan
“When it comes to school breakfasts, two is better than none, says a new report released Thursday in the journal Pediatric Obesity. Researchers tracked nearly 600 middle-school students from fifth to seventh grade, looking to see if students ate no breakfast; ate breakfast at home or school; or ate both — and whether that affected obesity rates. The result: Weight gain among students who ate “double-breakfast” was no different than that seen among all other students. Meanwhile, the risk of obesity doubled among students who skipped breakfast or ate it inconsistently. “It seems it’s a bigger problem to have kids skipping breakfast than to have these kids eating two breakfasts,” says Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and one of the study’s authors.”(more)