Teen moms' breakfasts
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
Many teen moms' breakfasts seem to be no breakfasts. That shows up in data on about 1,300 teen moms in 27 states. A study says about 42 percent of teen moms had breakfast fewer than two days a week.
At Washington University in St. Louis, researcher Debra Haire-Joshu suspects teen moms are rushing off to school. But she warns:
``When you skip breakfast, you're going to make up those calories somewhere, and you don't tend to make them up in healthy ways.'' (6 seconds)
Haire-Joshu says breakfast-skippers seemed to snack more, drank more sweetened beverages, ate more calories than those who ate breakfast, and could be setting bad examples for their kids.
The study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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