Email a Friend
Print Article
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Kids Need Their Morning Meal
While adults need to eat breakfast each day to perform their best, kids need it
even more. Their growing bodies and developing brains rely heavily on the
regular intake of food. When kids skip breakfast, they can end up going for as
long as eighteen hours without food, and this period of semistarvation can
create a lot of physical, intellectual and behavioral problems for them.
A Good Investment
If you and your kids regularly skip breakfast in the interest of saving time or
getting a few more minutes of sleep, remember that eating a wholesome,
nutritious morning meal will probably save you time in the long run. By
recharging your brain and your body, you'll be more efficient in just about
everything you do. Interestingly, studies show that kids who skip breakfast are
tardy and absent from school more often than children who eat breakfast on a
regular basis. Preparing a good breakfast can be as quick and easy as splashing
some milk over cereal. Time invested in breakfast is much more valuable than
the few extra minutes of sleep you might get by bypassing the morning meal. If
you and your kids seem unable to make time for breakfast, consider enrolling
your children in a school breakfast program, if possible, or pack a breakfast
brown-bag the night before so that you and your kids can eat on the way to
school and work.
Break the Fast to Shed the Pounds
Some people skip breakfast in an effort to lose weight, but the practice is
more likely to cause weight gain than weight loss. Skipping breakfast is
strongly linked to the development of obesity. Studies show that overweight and
obese children, adolescents, and adults are less likely to break the fast each
morning than their thinner counterparts.
According to research, skipping meals, especially breakfast, can actually make
weight control more difficult. Breakfast skippers tend to eat more food than
usual at the next meal or nibble on high-calorie snacks to stave off hunger.
Several studies suggest that people tend to accumulate more body fat when they
eat fewer, larger meals than when they eat the same number of calories in
smaller, more frequent meals. To teens, especially teenage girls, skipping
breakfast may seem like a perfectly logical way to cut down on calories and
lose weight. It's important for moms to educate their kids about the importance
of the morning meal and the role it plays in maintaining good health and
preventing obesity.
WebMD Medical Reference
Health & Diet Guide
VIVELLE-DOT (estradiol transdermal system) IS AVAILABLE BY PRESCRPTION ONLY.
INDICATION
Vivelle-Dot is used after menopause to: reduce moderate to severe hot flashes; treat moderate to severe dryness, itching and burning in or around the vagina; help reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis (thin weak bones); and treat certain conditions in which a young woman's ovaries do not produce enough estrogens naturally. Vivelle-Dot 0.025 mg/day is only used to prevent osteoporosis from menopause. If you use Vivelle-Dot only to treat your dryness, itching, and burning in and around your vagina or if you use Vivelle-Dot only to prevent osteoporosis from menopause, talk with your healthcare professional about whether a different treatment or medicine without estrogens might be better for you.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Estrogens increase the chances of getting cancer of the uterus (womb). Report any unusual vaginal bleeding right away while you are taking estrogens. Vaginal bleeding after menopause may be a warning sign of cancer of the uterus (womb).
Do not use estrogens with or without progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, or strokes. Using estrogens with or without progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots. Using estrogens with progestins may increase your risk of dementia (decline in memory and thinking skills).
Vivelle-Dot should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding; currently have or have had certain cancers, including cancer of the breast or uterus; had a stroke or heart attack in the recent past (for example, in the past year); currently have or have had blood clots; currently have or have had liver problems; or think you may be, or know that you are, pregnant.
The most common side effects that may occur with Vivelle-Dot are headache, breast tenderness, and back pain.
You and your healthcare professional should talk regularly about whether you still need treatment with Vivelle-Dot.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Full Prescribing Information for Vivelle-Dot.
Health Check: Weight Loss Surgery
When Are Extra Pounds a Danger?
Jonathan Sackner Bernstein, MD, talks about when being overweight becomes a health problem.
