Eating an unhealthy breakfast could have a similar effect on your child's school day as having nothing at allfor their teenagers to have breakfast before they go to school. Even though young people can be reluctant to eat it, breakfastWe also looked at whether it matters if they have a healthy breakfast, an unhealthy breakfast or no breakfast at all.As educational psychology researchers we look at ways to improve how students learn.
We also asked questions about their personal background, how well they usually perform in science, and also features of the classroom so we could account for these in our findings.We found students who ate a healthy breakfast on the morning of the study demonstrated higher levels of motivation and achievement.
Because we also looked at students' previous science results, the study showed that even if they had previously performed well in science, they could still score low inAlthough our study could not dig into specific reasons for this, it is likely because eating the wrong kinds of foods does not properly fuel the mind or body for what is needed to optimally"switch on" academically.