Breakfast and snacks: asociations with cognitive failures, minor injuries, accidents and stress

Chaplin, Katherine S. and Smith, Andrew Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-8028 2011. Breakfast and snacks: asociations with cognitive failures, minor injuries, accidents and stress. Nutrients 3 (5) , pp. 515-528. 10.3390/nu3050515

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Abstract

One strategy for examining effects of nutrients on cognitive function is to initially investigate foods that contain many different nutrients. If effects are demonstrated with these foods then further studies can address the role of specific nutrients. Breakfast foods (e.g., cereals, dairy products and fruit) provide many important nutrients and consumption of breakfast has been shown to be associated with beneficial effects on cognitive function. Isolating effects of specific constituents of breakfast has proved more difficult and it is still unclear what impact breakfast has on real-life performance. The present study provided initial information on associations between breakfast consumption and cognitive failures and accidents. A second aim was to examine associations between consumption of snacks which are often perceived as being unhealthy (chocolate, crisps and biscuits). A sample of over 800 nurses took part in the study. The results showed that frequency of breakfast consumption (varied breakfasts: 62% cereal) was associated with lower stress, fewer cognitive failures, injuries and accidents at work. In contrast, snacking on crisps, chocolate and biscuits was associated with higher stress, more cognitive failures and more injuries outside of work. Further research requires intervention studies to provide a clearer profile of causality and underlying mechanisms.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry T Technology > TX Home economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Breakfast ; Snacking ; Cognitive failures ; Accidents ; Injuries ; Stress
Publisher:	MDPI Publishing
ISSN:	2072-6643
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 April 2017
Date of Acceptance:	3 May 2011
Last Modified:	14 May 2023 17:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28881

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