Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Provide free breakfasts in schools may lead to obesity

Medical News. Criticized a senior official in the Ministry of Health in New York City, saying that the free breakfast program in the schools of the city, makes young children are obese.
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Said Gretchen Van Wye director of epidemiology and community that offered free meals in the classroom may lead to gorging on 21.2% of the children greedily Aftoren.


"It should be given special care to ensure that children do not take inadvertently extra calories by eating meals Breakfast multiple," and said there is a need to "more reviews" of the quantity of consumption of calories in schools with the schools that offer breakfast at no charge free of charge.


Wi made the paper is considering the degree of influence of classroom breakfast, which is a voluntary program, which was introduced in 2008.


Considered the study, conducted between May and March in 2010, based on the results of the program, which applied to 2289 students in third grade, fourth and fifth graders in East and Central Harlem, North and Central Brooklyn and the Bronx South, where it was compared to children who ate breakfast in the classroom with the kids in schools, where is served breakfast in the cafeteria only. Found that about one out of every five children who ate breakfast in the classroom were eating breakfast twice.


A source in the Ministry of Health "did not make this step as law, but the speed of thinking this even be discussed by the researchers."


I found the guidelines that the Federal meals contain approximately 450 calories, and there is no difference in the calorie content of food served breakfast in the cafeteria or in the classroom.

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