The association also held true for middle school students who ate breakfast at school after already eating breakfast home. In fact, students who skipped or ate breakfast inconsistently were more than twice as likely to be overweight or obese than students who ate double breakfasts.
“When it comes to the relationship between school breakfast and body weight, our study suggests that two breakfasts are better than none,” said Marlene Schwartz, PhD, a study author and director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut.
The study involved 584 middle school students from 12 schools in an urban school district that provides breakfast and lunch to all students at no cost.
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