Skipping morning breakfast, result in bad on the level intelligence of children

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Do not forget to prepare a nutritious breakfast for your child this morning! Breakfast habits of children known to be associated with intelligence and children who skip breakfast tend to have a low IQ.

"Childhood is a critical period a person, where diet and lifestyle her can be implicates directly on the health and quality of life of long-term," said Jianghong Liu, a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

It seems, the breakfast habits of children is also closely related to the quality of later life. According to a study led by Liu, kids breakfast habits related with IQ.

The researchers analyzed data from 1269 children aged 6 years involved in the study of China Jintan Child Cohort Study, against relationship between breakfast habits with their intellectual ability. The study also has been take into account a risk factor for other low IQ.

The result is known that children who regularly skip breakfast have a lower total IQ scores up to as big as 4.6 points, compared with children who regularly eat breakfast. Performance IQ scores between children who skip breakfast was 2.50 points lower, and its verbal IQ scores 5.58 points lower.

Researchers believe that breakfast is very important for children, whose brains are still will through cognitive development. The brain will be hungry an energy, when you wake up in the morning, because last night the stomach is not filled food when sleeping.

Breakfast can supply the energy-producing fuel needed by the brain. In addition, the researchers suggest that social interactions who children receive from eat breakfast together the family can promote the development of the brain. 

Hearing conversation parents who positive regularly when breakfast can help children develop vocabulary her, learn about general knowledge, and can practice to understand groove of conversation or the story.

"Regular breakfast with nutritious foods can improve IQ that affect the physical, mental and long-term quality of life," said Liu, as quoted by NaturalNews.

The breakfast also has other benefits such as preventing obesity. Study in 2012 found that children who skip breakfast tend to be more obese because it is more likely to eat too many high-calorie foods and sugary soft drinks during lunch at school.