Study's Fun Dec 2014 | Page 6

Do you skip breakfast regularly? Do you choose junk food like fried chicken, chips, carbonated drinks etc. over fresh, well balanced diet all the time?

You may ask, “Yeah, what’s the big deal?” But these unhealthy eating habits will cause side effects especially in students like you who need to meet particular nutritional demands of the school day.

To excel academically, you must be physically fit to attend class, team up with your peers and focus on tasks at hand. The mental working of math, language and creative thinking also require physical support from nutrition. If you want to do your best to get good grades, following a healthy diet can improve your performance in school.

Attendance

You can't keep up with homework and tests if you aren't in school every day. Getting adequate protein, vitamins and minerals from food can keep you from taking sick days and missing daily lessons. Eating a healthy breakfast makes you more likely to achieve your daily nutritional goals. This keeps your body strong and less likely to succumb to disease.

Focus

School is a social network that requires cooperation from students and your behaviour in this environment depends partly on getting to school well fed. Hunger can distract you and make you irritable, while eating a healthy breakfast can improve alertness and help you work towards good grades.

Thinking

Eating breakfast regularly before school meets the brain's blood sugar requirements and nutritional support. This improves the memory, problem solving and concentration skills that are essential to learning and achieving high grades.

Test Scores

Balanced nutrition plays a part in testing well. Students who eat a complete instead of partial breakfast work more quickly with fewer math and number errors than those who don't. Healthy eating also contributes to better performance on vocabulary and visual skills tests.

Want to be an A grader?

Watch what you’re eating?