Kids who eat well do well in school (My Paper, 16/4, pA19)

While I am happily still nestled in my mum's embrace for the best nutrition, dad is pondering what is the next best thing to start me off to eat right. I know gor gor still doesn't really eat vegetables and dad is quite sure, I need to get it right, from the start.

" Report noting the findings of a study in Nova Scotia, Canada, on the correlation between eating breakfast and performance in school.

Report noted that the study found that pupils who ate an adequate amount of fruit, vegetables, protein, fibre and other components of a healthy diet were significantly less likely to fail a literacy test. The study investigated 4,589 children in fifth grade participating in the Children’s Lifestyle and School-performance Study, 875 (19.1 per cent) of whom failed an elementary literacy assessment.

Report noted that the study found that the better a child’s eating habits based on several measures of diet quality, the less likely he or she was to have failed the test, even after the data were adjusted for the effects of parental income and education, school and gender. "