What are the dangers of primary school students not eating breakfast?

We all know that primary school students are in the stage of physical development. If you skip breakfast, it may lead to malnutrition or gallstones. Therefore, we recommend that you should know how to avoid skipping breakfast. There are many harmful effects on primary school students not eating breakfast. I hope parents can pay attention to their children’s diet to avoid affecting their children’s development.

The dangers of skipping breakfast

1. Unbalanced nutrition and low resistance

Skipping breakfast for a long time will not only lead to insufficient intake of energy and nutrients throughout the day, but also, generally by nine or ten o'clock in the morning, you will feel hungry, causing excessive friction of the intestinal wall, damaging the intestinal mucosa, leading to digestive system diseases and causing malnutrition. In this way, the body's immunity is reduced and the body's resistance will be greatly reduced.

2. Susceptibility to gallstones

If you skip breakfast, your stomach will continue to move without food, and the gastric acid secreted at night will irritate the stomach wall, which will not only damage the gastric mucosa, but also prevent the bile in the gallbladder from being discharged, causing a large amount of cholesterol in the bile to precipitate and deposit over time, making people susceptible to gallstones. Foreign studies have confirmed that among female cholelithiasis patients aged 20 to 35, 80%-90% have the habit of skipping breakfast.

3. Prone to myocardial infarction

Cardiovascular disease experts in the United States have also repeatedly issued warnings to people who skip breakfast: If there is no food in the stomach in the morning, more type B thromboglobulin will form in the human blood. This is a protein that can cause blood coagulation and make people susceptible to myocardial infarction.

4. Prone to blood clots

The platelets of people who skip breakfast are more sticky and aggregated than those of people who eat breakfast, making them particularly prone to blood clots.

5. Easy to gain weight

If you skip breakfast, you will inevitably eat too much at lunch and dinner, especially dinner, and go to bed shortly after eating. The body does not have time to digest and absorb the food. Over time, the body cannot bear the burden, resulting in excess heat energy, which can easily cause fat accumulation and make people fat. Therefore, breakfast is the way to lose weight!

6. Accelerated Aging

If you skip breakfast, your body can only use the glycogen and protein stored in the body, which will eventually lead to dry, wrinkled skin, anemia, and accelerated aging.

7. Affects growth and academic performance

"Brain function depends largely on what you eat in the morning." A survey in the United States shows that children who do not eat breakfast have lower intake of energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates and certain minerals such as calcium, iron, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, vitamin A, folic acid, etc. throughout the day than children who eat breakfast. The nutrients provided by breakfast are difficult to replenish from lunch or dinner. An expert study on the test scores of 1,000 primary school students in grades 3-6 pointed out that students who eat breakfast perform better than those who do not eat breakfast. Moreover, the amount and content of breakfast are also related to academic performance.

I believe that after reading the contents of this article, mothers should all know the dangers of primary school students not eating breakfast, so it is recommended that mothers should urge their children to eat breakfast. We all know that it is very serious for primary school students not to eat breakfast. As mothers, you should be responsible for the healthy growth of your children.