Journal
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 19-28Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008001894
Keywords
Breakfast; Body weight; Nutrition; Children
Funding
- Canada Research Chair Program
- Canadian Institute of Health Information, Population Health Initiative
- Canadian Institute of Health Research
- Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec
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Objectives: To examine the association between skipping-breakfast, daily energy, macronutrients and food intakes, and BMI in pre-school children. Design: A cross-sectional study using information on children's food consumption and measured height and weight. Energy and macronutrient intakes of the children were derived from parent/day-care attendant's responses to 2411 recall interviews and eating behaviour questionnaires. Setting: Data obtained from a representative sample (n 2103) of children born in Quebec (Canada) in 1998. Subjects: One thousand five hundred and forty-nine children, with a mean age of 49 (SD 3.12) months. Results: Ten per cent of children ate breakfast on fewer than 7 days per week. This behaviour was associated with a lower diet quality and concentrated energy intakes through higher protein intakes at lunch and the consumption of snacks higher in energy and carbohydrate in the afternoon and evening; yet total daily energy intakes were not significantly different from those of pre-school children who ate breakfast every day. Breakfast skippers' mean BMI increased as intake of energy, carbohydrates or servings of grain products increased; however, this was not the case for breakfast caters. When Cole's cut-off for overweight/obesity was used, overweight/obesity in breakfast skippers was related to the dinner-tithe consumption of approximately 3000 kJ (700 kcal) or more for energy intake, approximately 100 g or more of carbohydrates, or approximately 3 servings or more of grain products. Conclusions: Eating breakfast every clay is associated with having a healthy body weight, likely due to a more even distribution of energy intake across meals throughout the day.
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