Overweight in schoolchildren negatively affect performance Bashny.Net

A group of British scientists under the leadership of Dr. John Reilly, analyzed medical data 6 thousand 11-year-olds and compared them with the academic performance of children in school. The results of this work showed an interesting pattern: girls who are suffering in this age, excessive weight, showed lower school performance than their peers that the problem of excess weight was not familiar with.



It is interesting that boys of such pattern was found, and no relations indicators weight and academic performance, the researchers failed to install. John Reilly noted that it is especially hard for students with obesity were given English for children, natural science and mathematics. On these items points, compared to the skinny girls were the lowest. At the same time, scientists do not rush to draw any radical conclusions from the results of the study. Despite the fact that the sample of students was quite extensive, and the results can be called representative, the final results establish the relationship of weight and performance, the researchers don't want to do. John Reilly believes that, in order to finally establish itself in the opinion that the extra weight affects success in school, still need a number of additional studies that would give the necessary material for analysis.



Now only you can gently suggest that those school girls who are obese, very often think about your extra pounds, while their classmates this time and busy with school. This assumption scientists came after empirically excluded from the causes of this relationship socio-economic status of students, level of IQ and the timing of the menstrual cycle. That is, the relationship between obesity and academic performance lies solely in the psychological sphere, and to permit more active complex work of school psychologists, teachers and parents who have to debunk the myth that fat figure is very bad.

Source: zeleneet.com