Open AccessFast Food Consumption and Academic Growth in Late Childhood
Author(s) -
Kelly M. Purtell,
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1938-2707
pISSN - 0009-9228
DOI - 10.1177/0009922814561742
Subject(s) - medicine , consumption (sociology) , food consumption , environmental health , agricultural economics , social science , sociology , economics
The objective of this study is to examine the associations between fast food consumption and the academic growth of 8544 fifth-grade children in reading, math, and science.