It never ceases to amaze me when I speak to hard working friends and colleagues and they tell me, almost with a touch of bravado that they either don't eat breakfast, or lunch, or both. It astounds me how people expect to make decisions or use machinery when their brains are not operating at optimum capacity. When I ask those same people if they would send their children to school on an empty stomach, or expect them to go without lunch they look at me like I'm deranged. We would never dream of...