Study: Fast Food Linked To Lower Test Scores

By Julie Kliegman, The Week
Mon, 12/22/2014 - 3:36pm

There might be a link between what children eat and their test scores. That's according to a recent Clinical Pediatrics study by Ohio State University and the University of Texas.Fifth graders who ate fast food daily were four points behind those who didn't in reading and and science by the time they hit the eighth grade, Reuters reports.

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