Why Eating A ‘Western’ Diet Could Make Kids Do Worse In School

Researchers polled more than 2,800 adolescents about their dietary choices and examined their standardized test scores. Once they controlled for variations in body mass index readings and physical activity levels, they found that students who ate mostly vegetables and whole grains scored an average of 7 percent higher in mathematics, writing, and reading compared to their counterparts who ate a “Western” diet...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/09/29/3706900/western-diet-low-cognition/