Breakfast consumption and cognitive and academic performance in school children
A substantial body of evidence demonstrates the short- and long-term positive effects of breakfast consumption on a range of outcomes including: diet quality, macro- and micronutrient intake, weight status, social interaction and development, cognitive function and educational outcomes in school children. However, many school children omit breakfast from the diet.
Join Dr Katie Adolphus as she explains why breakfast is omitted and the reason the impact of this is greater in children and adolescents. Through the evidence you will then look at why breakfast is so important to cognitive function and educational outcomes such as academic performance.
Further to this, you will analyse the evidence-based report on acute intervention studies comparing breakfast, as well as the chronic effects of school breakfast programme interventions on cognitive function and academic performance.
What will I gain from this webinar
- Insight into acute intervention studies comparing breakfast vs. no breakfast
- Understand the effects of breakfast consumption vs no breakfast on attention, executive function, and memory.
- Insight on breakfast consumption frequency via school programmes and its association with academic performance.
Endorsement No EN175.63
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 2 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Breakfast consumption and cognitive and academic performance in school children2
Instructor
Dr Katie Adolphus, Research Fellow, Human Appetite Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Dr Katie Adolphus is a research fellow at the Human Appetite Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Leeds and is co-investigator on the H3 project: Healthy soil, Healthy food and Healthy people’. She is working on fibre reformulation with the food industry and its benefits to health. She has recently completed an MRC Fellowship at King’s College London investigating dietary modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis via short-chain fatty acids and microbiota–gut–brain communication.
Her PhD research has involved systematic reviews, human dietary intervention studies, and epidemiological studies that have demonstrated effects of breakfast consumption on cognition, academic performance, and in-class behaviour in children and adolescents. She is also an AfN Registered nutritionist (two specialist areas of competence: Food Industry Nutritionist and Nutrition Scientist) and had previously worked in the food industry as a commercial nutritionist.
Dr Adolphus also has expertise on nutrition and health claims legislation and authorisation process in the context of nutrition and cognitive function, and has previously led the compilation of a dossier for submission to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) pursuant to a proprietary health claim under the EU Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation.
