Children who eat lunch score 18 percent higher in reading tests, new study shows
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 09:52
in Psychology & Sociology
The powerful connection between nutrition and education has been revealed by new research from ESMT Berlin. Primary school children who attended a public free lunch program over an extended period were shown to have significantly better learning outcomes. According to the study, children with up to five years of midday meals had reading test scores that are 18% higher than those of students with less than a year of school lunches. They also showed an improvement of 9% for maths test scores.