Essay About Child Nutrition Act And First Study

Fasting And Cognitive Function
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FASTING AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION
In 1946 the National School Lunch Program (PL 79-396) instituted food supplementation. in our
countrys school systems and in 1966 Child Nutrition Act of 1966 expanded this type of program
to include breakfast and special milk programs.
My journal mainly focuses on the relationship between a good breakfast and a childs capacity
to learn and how skipping breakfast can have adverse effects on childrens late morning
problem-soloving performance.
There were two designed experiments- one conducted in Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CRC ( Cambridge, MA) and the second was conducted in the Texas Childrens Hostipal/Baylor
College of Medicine CRC ( Houston, Texas). The subjects were middle-class children aged
from 9 to 11 years old. There were 23 girls and 9 boys in the first study and 20 girls and
19 boys in the second. The children were admitted twice to each respective CRC at seven
day intervals. On the evening of each admission all children were provided with dinner
at 5pm. It was randomly chosen to feed breakfast on first morning. Breakfast was served
from 8 to 830. Behavioral testing was done from 1115 to 1145 am. Both studies included an
assessment of IQ: The peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Slossom Intelligence Scale
in studies 1 and 2 respectively. It also included the Matching Famliar Figure test and
the Hagen Central Incidental Test. The psychologists observing the children were blind
to the BR or NBR status of