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.
The research used data from a national representative American 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.
