Nutritional quality of diet and academic performance in Chilean students

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 […]

In this cross-sectional study by Pearce et al. (2018), the authors investigated whether a link exists between dietary habits and the academic performance of school children. A sample of 315 students (9-11 years old, attending 26 schools) had their academic performance assessed in 4 domains (writing, numeracy, reading and language: punctuation, spelling and grammar) via […]