National School Breakfast Week

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Healthy eating and academic achievement are interrelated. Ensuring all youth receive proper nutrition requires the coordination of public health professionals, schools, and parents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, skipping breakfast is associated with decreased cognitive performance as it can impact students’ alertness, attention, memory, processing of complex visual display, and problem solving. Inadequate consumption of specific foods, such as fruits and vegetables, is also associated with lower academic achievement.

In 1975, Congress established National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) to raise awareness of, and increase student participation in, the School Breakfast Program. Administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “the School Breakfast Program provides cash assistance to states to operate nonprofit breakfast programs in schools and residential childcare institutions.” This year’s theme is Score Big with School Breakfast, which hopes to “show students, parents, and stakeholders all the ways that your school breakfast program is a winner!”

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Category: Health Observance
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