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 Eleven Steps to Optimal Nutrition

Breakfast

Eat Breakfast

If your busy day means breakfast is a cup of coffee as you run out the door and lunch is a quick bite at your desk between meetings, e-mails and phone calls, you may be negatively affecting your company’s health along with your own. Despite the healthful benefits, breakfast may be the meal that is most often neglected or skipped. Numerous studies have suggested that skipping breakfast reduces performance at work.

Why breakfast? Forty years of breakfast-related studies show that jump-starting the day with breakfast benefits everyone - children, teens, and adults.breakfast

THE BENEFITS OF EATING BREAKFAST

  • Replenishes the body’s blood glucose levels.

  • Contributes significantly to one’s total daily nutrition intake.

  • Improves learning and performance.

  • Helps manage weight.

  • Reduces the risk of heart disease.

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 This module was developed by Lisa Ota, RD, MPH, MA.

 

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