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BREAKFAST: THE MEAL
(excerpt from May 5, 2007 speech)
People ask me, "Mr Breakfast, why are you so fired up about this issue?" Let me lay it out.
Number One. "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Your mom said it. Your teachers said it. This is the biggest understatement of all time. My friends... breakfast is not just the most important meal of your day. It is the most important meal of YOUR LIFE! Scientific study after scientific study proves it. Kids who eat breakfast do better on tests than kids who don't. They have a lower tardiness rate. A recent study showed that young women who eat breakfast are better at maintaining a healthy weight. A study of 300 dieters showed us that people have a better chance at sticking to a diet if they include breakfast. People are more alert when they eat breakfast. You want more reasons to eat breakfast... I have hundreds.
The second reason I have come out so strongly in favor of this grand meal is... and this kills me... if we don't act now, breakfast in America will be extinct in 30 years. We no longer treat it with the respect our parents did. People are rushing around, eating vitamin-infused candy bars in the morning. More people today drink ONLY coffee than eat eggs for breakfast. If people continue to treat breakfast as a snack - as something to get out of the way, how can it survive? The end result will be an unhealthy America, a country of frantic, fat, unfocused, hungry people. I'm not so sure I want to live in that country.
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