Adults - physical and mental performance
Adults too perform better after a healthy breakfast. Studies show that men and women who eat breakfast tend to work faster, make fewer mistakes in logic tests and have better memory recall than those who skipped breakfast. Several studies show that eating breakfast can help improve mental alertness and physical performance23,24,25,26,27,28.
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24 Kennedy E, Davies C. 1998, US Department of Agriculture School Breakfast Programme. Proceedings of the Napa Valley Symposium Cognition and School Learning 1995. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 67:743S-7455S.
25 Pollitt E, Lewis NL, Garza C, Shulman RJ. 1982, Fasting and cognitive function. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 17:169-74.
26 Murphy JM, Pagano ME, Nachmani J, Sperling P, Kane S, Kleinman RE. 1988, The relationship of school breakfast to psychosocial and academic functioning. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 152:899-907.
27 Benton D, Parker PY. Breakfast, blood glucose, and cognition. 1998. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 67:772S-8S.
28 Wesnes, K, Pincock, C, Richardson, D, Helm, G. & Hails, S. 2003, Breakfast reduces declines in attention and memory over the morning in schoolchildren. Appetite, 41 (3): 329‐331.
