Fast food slows down children's brains

1. Fast food slows
down children's
brains
Eating Junk Linked To Poor Scores In
School Tests, Says Study On American
Kids

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Parents, please note! Fast food may slow the
brain and make children perform worse in
school, a new study has warned.In the study of
more than 8,000 participant children who ate
the most fast food were found to have poorer
scores in tests for maths, science and reading.
“Research has been focused on how children's
food consumption contributes to the child
obesity epidemic. Our findings provide evidence
that eating fast food is linked to another
problem: poorer academic outcomes,“ said Dr
Kelly Purtell who led the study at Ohio State
University .

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The research used data from a national
representative Amer ican sample of 8,500
schoolchildren, whose fast food consumption
was measured at the age of 10, and then
compared against academic test results three
years later.
Children were asked how many times they had
eaten a meal or snack from a fast-food
restaurant, `The Telegraph' reported.Fifty two
per cent had eaten fast food between one and
three times in the previous week and 10% had
eaten it four to six times.

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In science tests, the daily eaters scored an average
of 79 points, compared to 83 in those who never
ate fast food. Similar differences in academic
achievement were observed for reading and
maths.
Researchers said it is possible that a lack of iron -
which is associated with fast food -leads to a
slowing in development of certain processes in the
brain. The consequences of a poor diet may have
been laid bare by a new study published in Clinical
Pediatrics (paywall), which suggests that children
who eat regularly at McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut,
and the like don't perform as well at school as their
peers.

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Fast food, of course, is popular partly
because it is very cheap, and families
who feed it to their children regularly
are poorer--which means they're also
less able to provide other things that
help a child learn, such as books, a quiet
study space, and parental help.

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