An overview on the associations between health behaviors and brain health in children and adolescents with special reference to diet quality

In this study by Adelantado-Renau et al. (2018), the authors investigated the links between fidelity to the Mediterranean diet and academic performance, and if sleep played a role in influencing these links, in a sample of 269 adolescents (52% boys, 13.9 ± 0.3 years of age), extrapolated from the Deporte, ADOlescencia y Salud study of […]

Medical students frequently experience fatigue, which results in poor academic outcomes. As dietary impairments are known to affect academic performance, Tanaka et al. (2008) investigated whether poor dietary patterns were related to the pervasiveness of fatigue in medical students through examining a sample of 127 healthy, second-year medical students. The study participants submitted a questionnaire […]