Junk Food For Thought (or Not)

Surprise! According to a recent study in the UK, mental health problems among youngsters are on the rise as they consume increasingly more junk food.

University of London researchers studied 14,000 children and determined that a large number of youngsters who ate snacks such as potato chips, lollipops and take-out food at age three lagged behind the rest of their classmates in elementary school.

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The study also found about 25% of the children who consumed an above average amount of junk food at age three were 10% less inclined to keep up with their fellow students during their initial four years of elementary school.

Fed up with junk food

As more baby boomers attempt to combat the prospects of mental decline, the question arising in more aging adults’ minds is whether or not certain foods in general, and of course junk food in particular, also adversely affects their ‘cognitive’ abilities like memory and reasoning etc.?

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