A recent study
of obesity in children suggests that being overweight when young
reduces the child’s intelligence. Researchers at the NYU Langone School
of Medicine claim to have found that obese toddlers wind up being, well,
stupid teenagers.
I would be apt to dismiss this Federally-funded study (see abstract here ) as junk science, since the researchers do not simply claim a statistically small difference in I.Q. between obese children and their peers but a whopping 5 to 15% test score difference. Still, it does dovetail with other studies that give similar results, so for the sake of argument let us assume it is accurate.
(Interestingly enough, little was made of a recent study showing similar effects on children from high levels of fluoridation of water.)
The research was funded by the National Institute for Health and the lead author is founder of the BODY Project :
Read more: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49555
I would be apt to dismiss this Federally-funded study (see abstract here ) as junk science, since the researchers do not simply claim a statistically small difference in I.Q. between obese children and their peers but a whopping 5 to 15% test score difference. Still, it does dovetail with other studies that give similar results, so for the sake of argument let us assume it is accurate.
(Interestingly enough, little was made of a recent study showing similar effects on children from high levels of fluoridation of water.)
The research was funded by the National Institute for Health and the lead author is founder of the BODY Project :
“Dr. Convit’s focus on combating and raising awareness about the impact of childhood obesity led him to create the The BODY Project, a program that works with New York City schools and parents to evaluate students’ height, weight, blood pressure, test for insulin resistance and record other measures of health, giving parents an overview of their child’s health status”
Read more: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49555
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