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NEWS: JUNK
FOOD AFFECTS LEARNING, RESEARCH FINDS
(Source: FDIN) |
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Research has found that children who eat junk food from
an early age could have a reduced ability to learn.
According to the Guardian, researchers from Bristol
University and the Institute of Education at London
University conducted the study over the last four years.
Its findings suggest that those children who ate junk
food at age three made the slowest progress in later
years at primary school.
And the research team stated that school meal quality
can make little difference, saying: "Children who do
poorly at school are more likely to have been affected
by the food they ate many years earlier, rather than the
chicken nuggets they had at lunchtime."
The study also found that children starting a poor diet
at ages four and seven did not suffer academically.
Last month a survey by London Metropolitan University
showed that pupils are ignoring the new healthy heals on
offer, choosing instead to visit local shops to buy junk
food.
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