ABSTRACT
Breakfast skip is an activity that ignores the meal in the morning before start works, most previous studies assumed that it’s affect children health outcome. This study aim to inform the readers that how breakfast skip influence adolescent health status particularly weigh gain. This data was collected from published papers between January 2008 to 2014 used Google scholar databases. The articles were limited to English language only which focus on breakfast skip, obesity and children as keywords. Breakfast skipping has great influence to the children body particularly body mass index (BMI). Those who omit breakfast will less satiety, increase appetite and having large portion at subsequent meals, consequently total energy density higher than breakfast eaters. Breakfast skipping will lead children to the adverse health outcome especially weigh gain. Conversely, breakfast consumption is a way to ensure that they meet their daily nutrient and energy intakes.
ABSTRACT
Snacking is consumption of food and drinks between meals, which has contradict perception toward intake quality of the children. This study aim to inform the readers how snacking associated with weigh gain in the children. This data was collected from published papers between January 2004 to 2014 used Google scholar and PubMed databases. The articles were limited to English language only which focus on snacking, obesity and children as keywords. Snacking has great influence to the diet quality of the children particularly body mass index (BMI). Those who ate snack with large portion and size more frequently will have high risk to be obesity conversely those who eat snack without hungry feel will improve diet quality in children. Snacking is not only independent factor that contribute to the weight gain in children but it also has positive impact to the diet quality. Further investigation needed to find the clear understanding of influence or association of snacking toward weight gain.