The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Health Dr Narong Sahametapat, has revealed that according to the National Statistics Office of Thailand, a survey of 26,520 households has found that young children (6 -14 ) rank best in having three proper meals a day at 93 percent, and young people (15-24 years old) rank as the last group to have three healthy meals, at 87 percent.

When compared with the same period in 2012, the number of young people who skipped breakfast rose by 50 percent while the 6-14 year old age group eating three meals a day grew by 13 percent.

The results show that the reasons for skipping breakfast are due to the rush to get to school or having no time to prepare breakfast. Others say that they skip the meal to loose weight.

Doctor Narong has expressed his concern that skipping breakfast will increase hunger throughout the day, making people overeat later and seek out snacks to compensate for missing that first – and some say most important – meal of the day. It also affects their work and study performance when the sugar level is low in the blood system.