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The present study was conducted to find out the breakfast habits on the academic performance of university students. The major objectives of the study were to find out the breakfast habits of students and their academic performance. The nature of the study was quantitative and Population was the students of university of Sargodha both male and female. Malty stage sampling technique was used for the collection of data. A sample of 240 respondents was taken from 16 departments of 7 faculties, while 15 students were taken from each department. Data were collected through simple random and convenient sampling; in this research 16 departments were selected through lottery/fishbowl method to collect the data. The study found that most of the students skip their breakfast mostly and consumed less fruits, fish, lettuce, and soup. It is found that there is highly association between breakfast habits and education performance the students who consumed less food feel laziness and inactive during study they can’t focus on the study. A vast majority of the respondents i.e.47% don’t take breakfast often while most of the students missed one time meal often that become the cause of brain damage and makes the student cognitive level low. That becomes the cause of obtained low grades in education.
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To Cite this Article: Arshad, N., & Ahmed, U. (2014). Impact of Breakfast Habits on Education Performance of University Students (A Study Conducted on University of Sargodha, Pakistan). International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 3(1), 271–286.
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