Healthy & Quick Breakfasts For Children With ADD & ADHD

According to "The American Dietetic Association Guide To Healthy Eating For Kids" the top 3 breakfast mistakes that parents make are:
1. Letting Kids skip Breakfast.
2. Providing Skimpy or boring Breakfasts.
3. Not eating breakfast themselves.
It can be tempting to skip breakfast, but the cost is too great.
"Breakfast skippers tend to perform poorly and behave in appropriately in school and may be at risk for future health problems like obesity and heart disease."
The American Dietetic Association

Here are 7 reasons your child should have a healthy, balanced breakfast:
1.Eating Breakfast Improves Your Child's Test
Scores.
2.Kids who eat breakfast are more alert and perform better on tests than kids who skip their morning meal.
3.They also have more energy and are more creative.

Breakfast skippers on the other hand, had a decreased attention span and were less able to concentrate.

4.Surprisingly breakfast eaters had improved school attendance.
They are absent less often and spent less time in the school nurses office.

5.Breakfast eaters are better behaved and have a better attitude toward school.
Those kids that skip breakfast are tired, irritable, restless, anxious and aggressive.
I know that when I'm hungry, I tend to be very irritable and cranky and I'm an adult.
Imagine how much more hunger affects a child, who is less able to control their emotions.

6. Breakfast eaters have more strength and endurance.
They are better nourished than those that don't eat breakfast.

7.Keeps your child's weight under control.
Studies have confirmed that those that eat breakfast stay slimmer than those who don't.

The word breakfast literally means 'break fast' . Your body has gone all night long without any nourishment and needs to replenished soon after you wake up.

Eating is one half of the equation, what you eat is the other. If your child is hungry very soon after eating breakfast, then he isn't eating the right foods.

Breakfasts that consist primarily of sugary foods and refined carbohydrates such as sweetened fruit juice, doughnuts or sugar coated breakfast cereals, are likely to make your child very hyperactive, jittery and inattentive. And an hour or so later, your child's blood sugar levels plummet making your child hungry once again.

The secret is giving your child a balanced breakfast. Protein is an essential component of a balanced breakfast because it helps to keep a child's blood sugar levels stable.