Breakfast : The Most Important Meal Of The Day ?
早餐是一天中最重要的吗？

Is there a good reason to eat breakfast?
有没有很好的理由来解释为什么要吃早餐？

It sounds entirely sensible to start off the day with breakfast.
新的一天从吃早餐开始，这听起来完全是合情合理的。

However ,until recently there was little or no scientific evidence to prove that eating breakfast is advisable.
然而，直到最近，几乎很少甚至没有任何科学证据来证明吃早餐是明智之举。

Many children and adults find themselves skipping breakfast to get going early or to get that extra ten minutes in bed.
许多成人和青少年常常不吃早餐，只为了能早一点上班或上学，甚至是为了能在订上多躺十分钟。

Is it having an affect on our health?
这样对我们的身体健康有影响吗？

In this month's Archives of Pediatrics, the results of a study are published which suggest that children who start eating breakfast,when previously they didn't ,show acadmic, emotional and social improvement.
在这个月出版的〈儿科学档案〉杂志上发表的一项研究成果表明，以前不吃早餐的儿童如果开始吃早餐，他们的学习成绩及情绪和社交能力都有所改善。

Hoe the researchers did their study was very clever.
研究人员是用一种很巧妙的方法进行研究的。

They interviewed 133 low-income students before a free breakfast program was started at their schools.
在开始进行这项免费早餐研究项目之前，研究人员与学校内133名低收入家庭的学生进行了面谈。

Four months later the reasearchers re-evaluated the students'progress through a combination of school data,teacher ratings and in-depth interviews with students and parents.
四个月之后，研究人员结合学校的纪录，老师的评价，及与学生和家长深谈后对这些学生的进步进行了再次的评价。

The researches concluded that."Higher rates of participation in school breakfast programs are associated in the short-term with improved student functioning on a broad range of psychosocial and academic measures."
研究人员得出的结果为：参与早餐计划者的进步在短期内与学生在范围甚广的心理和学业的评估方面面目一新的表现有关。

Children who ate breakfast more frequently improved in math and were absent and late less than children who did not eat breakfast more often.
经常吃早餐的儿童数学成绩有所进步，与经常不吃早餐的儿童相比，缺席和迟到现象也较少。

Both children and teachers found there were less paychosocial problems in the children eating breakfast more .
儿童与教师的共识是，经常吃早餐的儿童在心理社会方面的问题也较少。

So it seems that there is clear scientific evidene for what we've always suspected -- eating breakfast makes a lot of sense.
所以，看来有明确的科学证据表明，吃早餐非常重要。