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Article: Diet at three affects education more than school lunches ; Turkey twizzlers, chips and fizzy drinks may have been banned from the school dinner menu but new research suggests that it is a child's diet before they even get to the classroom that dictates their performance.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2008
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Turkey twizzlers, chips and fizzy drinks may have been banned
from the school dinner menu but new research suggests that it is a
child's diet before they even get to the classroom that dictates
their performance.
The ground-breaking Children of the 90s study, based at the
University of Bristol, has found that children who eat junk food at
the age of three do poorly at school between the ages of six and 10.
The project has charted the health and social development of
14,000 children who were born in 1991 to the present day and into
adulthood.
Their latest findings, published with the University of Bristol's
Institute of Education, shows that children who do poorly at school
are more likely to ...