European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 Messing around in the mess Hall among Young kids paying a visit to the mess Hall to learn same facts about nutrition and to Sample the food is Mela Nile a banana tastes but tends to get All Over her and she checks to see who checking As she lifts a for Ful of mess Hall food to her Perkins test indicates Good pupils eat Good breakfasts by Mary Adams staff writer Germany Sis food for thought is More than just a cliche its that was the conclusion reached after an Experiment at Babenhausen elementary almost All the teachers could see a parallel Between whether the children had eaten and How Well they said Donna a kindergarten teacher of 10 it All began in March when Jan Holczer asked her class of first and second Grad ers what did you have for breakfast her 22 years of teaching were Small Prepa ration for the answers of Kool Aid and soft even Coffee and and caffeine is definitely not what they said one agreed it puts pm on the ceiling and we have to Peel pm a bar graph demonstrating the Correla Tion Between breakfast and performance was charted in the school of 200 students in addition to a no breakfast it consisted of a variety of foods ranging from eggs and Bacon to doughnuts and All grades used Reading level As a measurement of although there were a few exceptions an excellent Reader who never eats break or vice teachers said the Experiment clearly indicated a connection Between breakfast and Al though successful in proving their the correlation would naturally have been even More prominent had the study been done with a larger group Over a longer period of they but whats wrong with highly advertised commercial breakfasts there break fast Arent they breakfast foods nutritional nutritionists like most of the breakfast won Ders injected daily into living rooms everywhere via contain a Large amount of sugar and what is commonly known As empty calories calories which contain Little or no nutritional value and Only serve to the nutritionists say they Lack the necessary protein that May otherwise be Brian Starr went along on the mess Ball although Hes just three and had a Little difficulty getting his nose above the obtained through a substantial eggs and Bacon although sugar is its Only its comparable to firing a gun into the air and watching the Bullet fall a Quick up and a Quick is a longer lasting form of instead of the sudden the body regulates its use of proteins Energy in a much More level pro and because it is used gradually at a steady the Energy is More Apt to last the entire pastries and sugarcoated cereals Cater to the not the if they should be an additional breakfast not a a nutritionist in the states once told says thai the Energy in cold and even hot cereals is virtually used up before you even leave the several of the teachers say they can easily discern who did or did not have breakfast that the child who neglected to cat is usually the one who consistently asks How much longer until they Are also the ones that most frequently complain of headaches and stomach there fueling says but there just too Young to recognize in an Effort to educate the children beyond books in the area of a Field trip was the mess Hall fort nine miniature soldiers trudged in Early one morning to teach their 5and 6 year old tummies the facts of nutrition the menu included everything from Toast and Jam to fruit and Panny cakes for it seemed a Conlest of who could cat the in one might say it was like feeding an most of pm came Back for the French Toast and Sweet said the sgt 1 c Buck just like the big and thai was Only the beginning during the course of a Iso More would the weeks of preaching paid they must have Learned for the mealtime conversation generally entered on what they were eating and How Good it was for them every meal 1 got Nghil Here is Good for said 6yearold Shami Brown Al the mess banana in except for the As though suddenly in he my dad likes dough ill save it for