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What You Eat, When You Eat And How You Eat Can Determine Your Success On And Off The Ice BY JUSTIN FELISKO
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you it's time to get up. It's always easier to roll over and grab an extra 15 minutes of precious sleep than it is to carve out time to eat breakfast. According to Rose Prissel, clinic dietician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., breakfast is one of the biggest challenges facing middle school children.
e've all been there. That moment where you're jolted awake by the sound of an alarm clock buzzing to tell
"Kids are either breakfast eaters or they are not," Prissel says. "Getting them to start to eat anything is the first step. Getting some carbohydrates in right away in the morning, along with fluids, is important." Yet breakfast does not have to be your standard bowl of cereal. If you're not a big fan of traditional breakfast foods then make yourself a quesadilla, a great source of calcium, or have a turkey sandwich on whole-grain bread with Swiss cheese. There is no rule saying you have to eat
certain foods for breakfast. The main thing, Prissel says, is that you eat something within those first two hours after waking up, even if it's against the norm.
No matter how much time you have in the morning, it's important to carve out a good breakfast. Depending on your tastes, you can go for traditional breakfast foods, like pancakes, or you can mix it up a bit and go for a quesadilla or a turkey sandwich.
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