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Breakfast quiz
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- Children should consume 25% of their daily intake of nutrients and calories at the breakfast meal.
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- Eating a breakfast high in sugar is a good way to get a child's brain working for the day.
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- Skipping breakfast can lead to behavioural and emotional problems in children.
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- Pizza is a good choice for breakfast. Answer...
- A balanced breakfast contains two out of four food groups.
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- Breakfast - skipping is less of a problem now than in previous years.
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- The word "breakfast" means "Break the Fast".
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- Left over stir-fry is a good breakfast. Answer...
- The more food you eat at breakfast, the better.
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- You need to eat breakfast as soon as you get up in the morning to get the most nutrition into your body.
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- TRUE! A good breakfast is one that will sustain a child's energy throughout the morning until lunch. A good breakfast will supply 25% of a child's daily calories and essential nutrients. Energy and nutrients that are missed at breakfast are hard to make up later in the day.
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- FALSE! When a high sugar breakfast is given to a child, it starts a vicious cycle that will last the rest of the day. When a breakfast contains sugary foods, a rapid rise in blood glucose results. After about an hour, blood sugar levels go down, energy levels go down, and hunger resumes. The body then craves another high sugar snack for quick relief and to get those sugar levels back up. This is a "yo-yo" sugar effect.
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- TRUE! When children skip breakfast, the hunger and drop in energy level that is felt later in the morning and throughout the day make it hard for children to think clearly and to control their emotions. Children who skip breakfast are more likely to be irritable, hyperactive, have poor concentration, have low self-esteem, have lack of social interaction, and have poor performance in school. It is important that children consume breakfast so they can get the most learning out of their day.
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- TRUE! Pizza can contain foods from all four food groups - grain products (crust), vegetables and fruit (peppers, mushrooms, pineapple, tomato sauce), milk products (cheese), and meat and alternatives (ham, ground beef). This makes it a balanced choice for breakfast. Homemade pizza is a fantastic choice - that way children can put exactly what they like on their slice! Commercial pizza, though, tends to have little vegetables and meat on it and can be very high in fat. Choose this less often.
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- FALSE! A healthy breakfast contains foods from at least three of the four food groups as described in Canada's Food Guide - Grain products, Vegetables and Fruit, Milk Products, Meat and Alternatives. This will help increase variety and energy that breakfast needs to contain to give a child energy to last throughout the day.
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- FALSE! Breakfast - skipping is a greater problem now than in past years. A number of factors contribute to this. Children are leaving for school earlier on the bus than in past years, making it hard for them to eat so soon after they wake up. Many families have two parents who work, making it hard to find time to prepare breakfast. Many children have so many extra curricular activities that start even in the morning, leaving them short on time to eat. Other possible pressures such as unemployment and increasing financial strain make it hard for some families to afford food. It is becoming more important than ever to plan breakfasts for children that they will actually like and will eat.
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- TRUE! The word "breakfast" does mean "Break the Fast!" Through the night when the body is resting, the brain continues to use glucose for energy. Because we do not eat for 6-8 hours when we are sleeping, the brain uses the body's storage of glucose for energy. When we wake up in the morning, our body needs to recover from a "fasting" state. Eating a balanced breakfast will replenish the body's energy stores and give the brain more glucose to use to work properly, "breaking the fast."
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- TRUE! Any food can be a breakfast food, even if that means stir fry. Lots of children (and adults too!) do not like the "typical" breakfast foods - cereal, fruit, muffins, pancakes, etc… Some people prefer a sandwich, salad, casserole, or stir fry first thing in the morning. A stir fry can contain three of the four food groups - noodles or rice, vegetables, and meat. If a child is fussy and wants macaroni and cheese for breakfast, great - just serve it with a glass of juice and they are ready to go!
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- FALSE! Again, the importance is variety. A breakfast that consists of four pieces of toast but nothing else is not a healthy breakfast. A breakfast that is four apples probably will not take you far. A variety of foods will provide the energy and nutrients needed to start the day right.
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- FALSE! Many people, especially children, are not interested or not able to eat as soon as they wake up in the morning. It is not important that a child eats before doing anything else. It is important, though, not to let too much time pass so that breakfast is skipped and it turns into lunch. Children (and adults too!) should try to eat something for breakfast within an hour of waking up. If it is not possible to eat all of a balanced breakfast right away, it is OK to break it up - drink the juice soon after waking, and then eat the yoghurt and cereal a little while later.
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