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Fast food consumption by children makes them dull in classroom, due insufficient nutrition and proteins in take. Children love to eat fast food everywhere because of taste and cheap rates. This kind of food habit makes children to perform very slow and poorly in some typical subjects like mathematics, science and reading studies.

Dr. Kelly Purtell who led the study at Ohio State University said that fast food slows down development of children’s brains and leads to obesity condition. According to the study conducted on over 8,000 children’s food habits, the poorer functioning of brains in studies and less responsive to important queries are evaluated and observed.

Actual study focused on how fast food contributes to child obesity epidemic and the result is shocking that fast food even makes brains inactive or less responsive gradually. In the sample survey children were asked to say how many times they go for a fast food centre to eat meal or snacks in a day, 52 percent of the children had eaten between one and three times and about 10 percent children had eaten between four and six times.

While observing the results of their science test results the average of fast food consuming students is 79 points, while the average of non fast food eaters is above 83. This kind of result only appeared in remaining subjects also.

The impact of fast food and unhygienic food consumption is high on children’s brains growth. However the fast eating students of poor families, lack in good reading conditions like sufficient reading material, reading rooms, cooperation from members of their families, etc.

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