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Research shows that children with iron deficiencies sufficient to cause anemia are at a disadvantage academically. Food insufficiency is a serious problem affecting children's ability to learn. Research indicates that school breakfast programs seem to improve attendance rates and decrease tardiness. Among severely undernourished populations, school breakfast programs seem to improve academic performance and cognitive functioning. The study seems to examine the relationship between academic of cognitive performance and eating breakfast in the morning. The author uses descriptive statistics in this study. The research was split into four different tables of data to show the results. The data was between children who took vitamins and ate breakfast and children who neither. They also used inferential statistics because they concluded the results based on a large group of children. The results describe the general performance of a student across a potentially wide range. The study seems to conclude that food insufficiency is a serious problem affecting children's ability to learn. School breakfast programs seem to improve attendance and decrease tardiness. Offering a healthy breakfast is an effective measure to improve academic performance and cognitive functioning among undernourished populations. Eating breakfast, in contrast to fasting, may improve performance on the morning eaten. Breakfast helps improve mental performance and concentration during morning activities. Children who skip breakfast will be more sluggish, less attentive, and have less energy to carry out their morning tasks. Teachers observe that children who come to school hungry experience more learning difficulties compared to well-nourished children. The study shows that breakfast eaters perform much better in their school work and show extra energy in sports and other physical activities. Besides assuring optimal development and growth, positive effects on alertness, attention, performance on standardized achievement tests, and other skills important for academic success are enhanced for those who eat breakfast on a daily basis. The long-term effects of eating breakfast on the performance of school children who do not have physical signs of severe undernourishment are less certain.