The Five Criteria for a Healthy, Balanced Breakfast for the Child with ADD ADHD

The word breakfast literally means 'break fast'. Your body has gone all night long without food and should be completed shortly after you wake up.
Food is one half of the equation, what you eat is the other. If your child is hungry quickly after eating breakfast, he is not eating the right foods.
Breakfast which consists mainly of sugary foods and refined carbohydrates such as fruit juice sweetened, sugar-coated donuts or cereal, is very likely that your child is hyperactive, restless and inattentive. And an hour later or so, your child's blood sugar plummeted so your child is hungry again.
The secret is to give your child a balanced breakfast. Protein is an essential part of a balanced breakfast because it helps to keep a child's blood sugar levels stable.
What does a balanced breakfast consists of:
The American Dietetic Association has come out with what they call a 5-star breakfast criteria. The more stars a breakfast scored, the more balanced and nutritious.
Here are the 5 criteria:
• The breakfast includes a selection of three different food groups.
• There must be no more than a nutritionally lacking food fats, oils and sweets.
• It should be fiber-rich foods such as wholemeal bread or cereals, or fruit.
• The fat content must be reduced.
• And your child should enjoy and actually eat the meal. After all it's no use how nutritious breakfast when your child is not eating.