Is junk food making kids dumb and destroying America?
Politicians love to cite reports that demonstrate dramatic declines in the test scores of American children. A recent test, called the Program for International Student Assessment , which is administered internationally every three years, found American kids lagging behind peers in several foreign countries, most especially those in South Korea, Finland, Singapore and China. The knee-jerk explanation for the American shortfall gravitates to culture. American kids watch too much TV, play too many video games and are too obsessed with social networking and popular culture to focus on math and science. But what is the role of diet, tap water and toxins in declining American test scores? Recent studies and reports paint an alarming picture. In a nutshell, a variety of conditions pervasive in the United States have been found to measurably lower the IQ of children. Research at the University of Bristol found a strong correlation between process junk food and lower IQs , as well as healthy ...