Your mother may have told you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Well, chalk up another one for mom because yet more studies confirm that breakfast can improve children’s memory and concentration.^1,2

There are plenty of stumbling blocks to eating a good breakfast: somehow that snooze button got hit three times, a bad hair day forced a few more minutes in front of the mirror and traffic is going to be terrible.

Literally, breakfast “breaks the fast” from your sleep.

Without breakfast, the body thinks it’s still fasting so it conserves energy and slows metabolism until you eat again⁴– valuable nutrients that could be fueling the brain are instead spent keeping the body moving.

So, does it matter what your kids eat for breakfast?

Absolutely! Popular sugary cereals have a high-glycemic index – a fancy way of saying that they cause a quick spike in blood sugar, which then falls off dramatically.