{"id":369174,"date":"2026-04-08T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:58:07","slug":"concerns-about-bradford-teenage-girls-skipping-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369174\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns about Bradford teenage girls skipping breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan said the high levels of “free sugars” \u2013 sugars that release energy quickly – and caffeine in energy drinks have a knock-on effect on health.<\/p>\n

“If you have a really high-sugar diet, particularly free sugars, that is going to hugely increase your chances of being overweight or obese.<\/p>\n

“That consequently, over the life course, has associations with not just physiological health issues, but also mental health issues, sleep quality, depression, anxiety, a whole host of measures, high blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack. A litany of long-term potential impacts,” he said.<\/p>\n

The government is planning a new law in England to stop anyone <\/a>under the age of 16 buying energy drinks such as Red Bull, Monster and Prime from shops, restaurants, cafes, vending machines and online following pressure from concerned parents.<\/p>\n

Speaking about Bradford teenagers’ attitudes to breakfast, Ryan said: “Female students might be more likely to report avoiding breakfast as a strategy to kind of manage weight or to keep to a lower caloric intake as a means to try and kind of keep their weight at the level they want.<\/p>\n

“What the research actually pulls out is that skipping breakfast is associated with increased weight. So often people who skip breakfast end up having a higher BMI than those who don’t.<\/p>\n

“If you skip breakfast and then you’re really hungry, you’re more likely to make impulsive choices, grab something quick at a counter, something that’s eye-catching, which often can be the kind of less favourable food and drink options.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan said the high levels of “free sugars” \u2013 sugars that release energy quickly – and caffeine in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-369174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nutrition","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}