FASTING AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION
In 1946 the National School Lunch Program (PL 79-396) instituted food supplementation. in our
country's school systems and in 1966 Child Nutrition Act of 1966 expanded this type of program
to include breakfast and special milk programs.
My journal mainly focuses on the relationship between a good breakfast and a child's capacity
to learn and how skipping breakfast can have adverse effects on children's late morning
problem-soloving performance.
There were two designed experiments- one conducted in Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CRC ( Cambridge, MA) and the second was conducted in the Texas Children's Hostipal/Baylor
College of Medicine CRC ( Houston, Texas). The subjects were middle-class children aged
from 9 to 11 years old. There were 23 girls and 9 boys in the first study and 20 girls and
19 boys in the second. The children were admitted twice to each respective CRC at seven
day intervals. On the evening of each......
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