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Better Food, Smarter Students?

November 11th, 2009 at 9:30 pm David Frum | 5 Comments |

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A diet higher in fruits and vegetables, lower in fats and sugars, reduces student absenteeism and boosts test scores, claims this column in the FT.

(H/T Yglesias/Klein).

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  • DFL // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:35 am

    Is this a case of the cart getting ahead of the horse? Perhaps smarter people choose to eat healthier while the stupider people choose to eat 7-11 Chili and Cheese Dogs, Doritos and McDonald’s Big Macs and drink Red Bull, Big Gulp sodas and Slurpees.

  • sinz54 // Nov 12, 2009 at 10:01 am

    This could be a case of correlation without causation.

    By changing the diet of these students, they were raising the consciousness of these students about the importance of wellness–maintaining health, preventing illness if possible. And perhaps making students more aware that they’re not indestructible led to their adopting other good behaviors.

  • jakester // Nov 12, 2009 at 10:09 am

    Jeez
    now that we are stuck feeding kids breakfast and lunch even when school is out, I guess we have to be even more conscious of their diet.
    Funny about all this school’s out feeding programs, we give these kids’ “parent(s)” all sorts of welfare and food stamps yet they unable to provide even a bowl of cereal or a sandwich for their precious babees,

  • Arch // Nov 12, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Sinz54: <i

    This could be a case of correlation without causation.

    By changing the diet of these students, they were raising the consciousness of these students about the importance of wellness–maintaining health, preventing illness if possible. And perhaps making students more aware that they’re not indestructible led to their adopting other good behaviors.

    Okay, maybe it’s not the actual content of the food, but isn’t that also causation? And does it matter whether the benefit is intellectual or nutrition based when it yields good results?

  • Arch // Nov 12, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Arg, again I mess up my tags. I try again.

    Sinz54:

    This could be a case of correlation without causation.

    By changing the diet of these students, they were raising the consciousness of these students about the importance of wellness–maintaining health, preventing illness if possible. And perhaps making students more aware that they’re not indestructible led to their adopting other good behaviors.

    Okay, maybe it’s not the actual content of the food, but isn’t that also causation? And does it matter whether the benefit is intellectual or nutrition based when it yields good results?

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