As breakfast is the foundation for a healthy diet and an essential component to achieving peak performance academically, physically and behaviorally, I support the improvement in the nutritional quality of the school breakfast program in Anne Arundel County. Additionally, I encourage the schools to implement higher nutritional standards for all food served through the integration of nutritionally dense, fresh, whole foods, free from trans fat/partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, artificial ingredients and "empty calories".