Sentences with phrase «sugary school breakfasts»

Unfortunately, her conclusion is the same as mine: don't expect to see much improvement in sugary school breakfasts (or school snacks, for that matter) any time soon.

And I hope this development encourages all of you to speak up about sugary school breakfasts in your own children's schools.

This week, The Happy Bite takes on the issue of sugary school breakfasts and I was honored to be the podcast's very first guest!

Today I have a piece on Civil Eats delving into some of the surprising reasons why sugary school breakfasts are so common nationwide, even after the 2010 school meal overhaul.

Most importantly, given the almost 14 million kids who eat school breakfast every day, I'm hopeful that the AHA recommendation, along with the new DGA on added sugar, will eventually make insanely sugary school breakfasts like this one (offered in my district before recent reforms were instituted) a thing of the past:

For example, when I wrote my free Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom and, more recently, when I researched my Civil Eats story on sugary school breakfasts, it was surprisingly hard to find reliable added - sugar recommendations for children.

For more information on sugary school breakfast and how to address the matter in your district, be sure to read my Civil Eats piece and also listen to my recent interview on the topic at Sally Kuzemchak and Dina Rose's The Happy Bite podcast.

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Nonetheless, I still feel there are many more troubling sources of sugar in school cafeterias, such as the ubiquitous, fiber - free juice often served at breakfast in lieu of fruit, as permitted by federal rules, or sugary breakfast entrees and a la carte snacks.

Every child needs a healthy breakfast to start their day ready to learn, but many children arrive at school either without eating breakfast or only having eaten a sugary snack.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.