Advocate For School Breakfast Addresses
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
BALTIMORE (Maryland)
“Breakfast is the most important
part of the day,” insists Dr. Doris
Derelian, adding “that statement
has lived on since the 19S0s, but
we had no real backup data for it.”
Now there is factual data to
Dr. Doris Derellan, an advocate of the school breakfast
program, promotes the use of whole milk In diets of chil
dren to enhance their learning abilities.
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back up those beliefs about the
importance of eating breakfast,
according to Dr. Derelian, the fea
tured speaker at the annual break
fast meeting of the Baltimore-area
Dairy and Food Nutrition Council
of the Southeast. The annual meet
ing, to which the Dairy and Food
Nutrition Council hosts area nutri-
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was held February 14 at the Air
port Marriott Hotel.
A Lawrence, Massachusetts
research study conducted in 1987
compared achievement and testing
scores of children following the
introduction that year of the
school breakfast program. Both
tardiness and absences in the
school were reduced considerably,
while achievement scores increased.
“With school breakfasts, kids
worked faster, had fewer mistakes,
provided more original answers on
open-ended tests and had more
physical energy, “ related Dere
lian, a bubbly, enthusiastic disci
ple of good nutrition. Current
president of the American Dietetic
Association, she is president of
Health Professions Training, Fall
brook, California, and has a doc
torate from the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles.
It is a fallacy that only kids
from low-income families skip
breakfast, Dr. Derelian empha
sizes. The twin factors of not
enough time in the morning and
too many other competing activi
ties create missed or low-nutrient
breakfasts daily for millions of
children from families at all socio
enocomic levels.
“Transient hunger” is how
Derelian labels the problem, as
opposed to the chronic malnour
ished or undernourished child
often seen in news reports of third
world or warring countries. A
study done by the National Dairy
Council found that between 28 to
33 percent of children arrive at
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school daily having consumed no
breakfast.
Physical symptoms of skipped
breakfasts include stomach pains
and headaches, muscle tension,
fatigue and sleepiness. Psycholog
ical and social symptoms range
from anxiety and nervousness to
fidgeting, anger, indecisiveness,
confusion and general unhappi
ness.
“A ‘brat’ in school may only be
experiencing these symptoms of
hunger,” Dr. Derelian warns.
“Teachers have become good at
detecting them.”
Even children who do eat
breakfast at home often experi
ence the classic “mid-morning”
slump, especially if proteins and
fats are not included in the break
fast. For that reason, Dr. Derelian
encourages the use of whole milk
for children’s breakfasts. Proteins
and fats, both components of
whole milk, take longer to get into
the blood stream than do sugars
and carbohydrates, such as might
be found in cereals or toast.
A promoter of school breakfast
programs. Dr. Derelian noted that
the cost, usually in the range of
one dollar, is generally lower than
grabbing breakfast for a child
enroute to school at a fast food
drive-through and supportive of
family values because it encour
ages good nutritional habits.
School breakfasts, by law, must
include servings from all the basic
food groups.
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Concerns
“School breakfast participation
is low because parents don’t know
or don’t understand the program,”
noted Dr. Derelian. “It’s too often
viewed with the stigma that school
breakfast is a program for the
poor.”
“The most difficult educational
subjects are generally taught in the
morning - and that’s when kids
haven’t eaten,” she lamented.
“Kids need energy.”
The Upper Chesapeake Bay
division of the Dairy Food and
Nutrition Council of the Southeast
is headquartered at the Sykesville,
Maryland, offices of the Coastal
Division of Mid-America Dairy
men, Inc., and funded by regional
producer-members of the nation
wide dairy cooperative.
A reorganization meeting of
the board of directors of the Upper
Chesapeake Bay division of the
Dairy Food and Nutrition Council
of the Southeast was held follow
ing the annual breakfast meeting.
Officers re-elected were Jesse
Burall, Sr., Monrovia, president;
David Patrick, Woodbine, vice
president; Joyce Bupp, Seven Val
leys, Pennsylvania, secretary; and
Gary Brauning. Finksburg, trea
surer. Also serving on the board
are Ralph Strock, Baltimore,
William Stauffer, Sykesville, and
Pennsylvania members, Robert
Grove, Greencastle, Paul Way
bright, Gettysburg, Hivin’' Rohrer,
Cochranville, and Emory Kilgore,
Airville.