Another reason why your child need breakfast

I've seen enough commercials to know that teens who eat breakfast are alert and firing on all their mental cylinders at school. But recent research strongly suggests that a protein-rich breakfast may also help keep their weight within a healthy range. A team of researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center sought to discover what would happen when a group of habitual breakfast-skipping adolescents ate a protein-rich meal containing eggs each morning.

According to the International Journal of Obesity findings, the teenagers who enjoyed a protein-rich morning meal stayed fuller longer and didn"t eat as much troughout the rest of their day, compared to both breakfast skippers and those who consumed a low-protein morning meal. Plus, the high-protein breakfast led to 10 fewer calories consumed at luch.

Nearly one in three American children is overweight or obese, according to The Journal of the American Medical Association. So help your children perform well in school and maintain a healthy weight by starting their day off with a breakfast thet includes plenty of protein