We have carried out a investigation of breakfast omitting for 1, 200 members of the junior and senior high school students in Kitakyushu city.
1) In breakfast omitting rate, girls are higher than boys and the rate rises both in girls and boys as they grow older.
2) The principal reason for 50.8% of the students who take no breakfast is no time to eat in the morning. Secondly, the rate of the students who have no appetite point out 17.7-49.0% and the distribution of the reasons of breakfast omitting show no differences in the seasons.
3) The most students of no appetite admit they have overeaten themselves last night and the rate is 1.4-19.5% and 8.3-29.8% of them have too short time until breakfast time.
4) 2.0-13.2% of breakfast omitting students have the reason that their breakfast were not prepared before they go to school. Although all of the students who have eaten and omitted their breakfast took the some hours to the school, for sleeping and the time of go to the bed. This can be supposed to depend on the condition of their life.