title: [The consumption frequency and the caloric value of breakfasts among the school children and teenagers].
abstract: The aim of this study was to make a customary frequency analysis of breakfast and lunch consumption among the children and teenagers from the rural environment, and a comparison of the caloric value of breakfasts and other meals eaten by the rural and urban teenagers during their stay at school. Breakfast was consumed by 52.8% to 65.85% of the tested from the rural environment. Among the upper secondary school students, the boys consumed their breakfast more often than the girls. A customary frequency lunch consumption in the rural population has lowered with age. It was always consumed by over 52% of the primary school students and only 31.9% of the lower secondary school students. The breakfasts of the caloric value lower than 20% in comparison with daily food rations were eaten by 43.74% of the students, and the tested from the urban area in this group made a higher percentage. Any vital differences in the breakfast caloric values depending on the place of living were not observed. More than 20% of the students in total had consumed neither a product nor a meal at school the day before the test was carried out. A higher percentage in this group made the boys from the urban area, but the rural boys at the age of 10.5 accepted a considerably smaller amount of energy from the food as compared with their peers from the city.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Antropologii Pedagogiki, Akademia Swietokrzyska, Kielce.
authors.forename: Edyta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Suliga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002149:Energy Intake; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D004044:Dietary Proteins