Increased frequency of habitual breakfast is consistently positively associated with academic performance in children and adolescents¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Across cross-sectional studies, breakfast skipping was associated with lower school grades, with odds of low grades decreasing with successive quintiles of breakfast frequency. → Adolphus 2013

Evidence¶

Adolphus 2013¶

Adolphus, K., Lawton, C. L., and Dye, L. (2013). The effects of breakfast on behavior and academic performance in children and adolescents. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00425

q2 · i? · review · r3

Cross-sectional survey evidence reported by the review (attributed to Lien, 2007) in a large sample of adolescents aged 15–16 years: those who never ate breakfast were twice as likely to have lower self-reported school grades, and "the odds of having lower self-reported school grades decreased with successive quintiles of breakfast eating frequency."

"the odds of having lower self-reported school grades decreased with successive quintiles of breakfast eating frequency suggestive of a dose-response relationship."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Regular breakfast consumption is associated with increased odds of high academic achievement in Norwegian adolescent girls and boys, most strongly in girls — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Quality of habitual breakfast, in terms of variety of food groups and adequate energy, is positively related to school performance
• School breakfast programs show suggestive positive effects on academic performance, with clearest effects on mathematics and arithmetic grades in undernourished children — related
• Robust RCTs of school breakfast programs failed to find behavioral benefits, with low and variable attendance and a shift from at-home to at-school consumption limiting impact — related
• Regular lunch consumption is associated with increased odds of high academic achievement in both girls and boys, and regular dinner and an all-meals pattern in boys — related