| | Fast food consumption, on the other hand, has a negative effect on student achievement. Students who had fast food at least seven times in the past week reported significantly lower current GPAs than students who had eaten fast food less than four times or not at all.<ref>[''The influence of eating habits on the academic performance of university students''] by Peter R. Reuter, Bridget L. Forster & Sierra R. Brister, ''Journal of American College Health'', ISSN: 0744-8481 (Print) 1940-3208 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vach20, https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1715986</ref>}} | | Fast food consumption, on the other hand, has a negative effect on student achievement. Students who had fast food at least seven times in the past week reported significantly lower current GPAs than students who had eaten fast food less than four times or not at all.<ref>[''The influence of eating habits on the academic performance of university students''] by Peter R. Reuter, Bridget L. Forster & Sierra R. Brister, ''Journal of American College Health'', ISSN: 0744-8481 (Print) 1940-3208 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vach20, https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1715986</ref>}} |
| − | The nutrition website Nutritionix indicates that it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes of walking (or 51 minutes of running at 6 miles per hour) to burn off the calories in a Dairy Queen cheeseburger and that it contains 535 calories.<ref>[https://www.nutritionix.com/food/dairy-queen-cheeseburger Dairy Queen cheeseburger]</ref> ]]
| + | According to ''Newsweek'', "Since 2012, some schools in California, New Mexico, and Illinois have banned the hot Cheetos due to their lack of nutritional value, and, well, messiness."<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/these-snacks-other-food-items-are-banned-us-1539229#:~:text=Flamin'%20Hot%20Cheetos&text=Since%202012%2C%20some%20schools%20in,%2C%20and%2C%20well%2C%20messiness. These Snacks and Other Food Items Are Banned in the US], Newsweek, 2020</ref>]] |
| | The journal article The Relationship of Food and Academic Performance: A Preliminary Examination of the Factors of Nutritional Neuroscience, Malnutrition, and Diet Adequacy states: | | The journal article The Relationship of Food and Academic Performance: A Preliminary Examination of the Factors of Nutritional Neuroscience, Malnutrition, and Diet Adequacy states: |
| | {{Cquote|Adequate and sufficient healthy intake of food is essential to brain function (Bloom, 2009; Dauncey, 2009; Kazal, 2002; Shariff, Bond, & Johnson, 2000). Moreover, maximizing brain function is a prime factor in seizing appropriate cognitive capability – for example, ability to focus, comprehension, evaluation, and application – in learning (Kretchmer, Beard, Carlson, 1996; Schmitt, 2010)... | | {{Cquote|Adequate and sufficient healthy intake of food is essential to brain function (Bloom, 2009; Dauncey, 2009; Kazal, 2002; Shariff, Bond, & Johnson, 2000). Moreover, maximizing brain function is a prime factor in seizing appropriate cognitive capability – for example, ability to focus, comprehension, evaluation, and application – in learning (Kretchmer, Beard, Carlson, 1996; Schmitt, 2010)... |