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Breakfast should be re-socialized among school children. It needs to be done so that children avoid the habit of unhealthy snack foods.

Teachers Section of Nutrition School of Public Health, Diponegoro University Semarang, Ir Suyatno Kes, say, breakfast is now becoming obsolete in the family that both parents busy.

"There are also parents who want pragmatic. Because children do not want breakfast, children were given pocket money immediately and children choose their own menu. Though children do not necessarily know that a healthy menu, "said Suyatno, last week.

If this condition takes place continuously, can lead to child malnutrition, even to inhibit physical growth.

And if socialized breakfast, said Suyatno, the average energy needs of school children, a third can be met from the breakfast.

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Based on data from the Ministry of Health in 2008 showed that 48 percent of school children eating snacks every day. Only one percent who never snack. School snacks contributed 36 percent of the energy needs of children. Unfortunately, about 44 percent of school children snacks are not eligible because they contain harmful ingredients or nutritional imbalance.

Director of Nutrition Directorate General of Nutrition and Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Minarto agreed, families need to restore the breakfast habit. "In the midst of busy parents, and prepare a nutritious breakfast and healthy. This is important for the activity and development of children, "he said.

"More than 50 million Indonesian population are school children aged 6-18 years. "If early taught to eat healthy, they will have a physical capital good and adequate nutrition of the brain," said Minarto