Home Cooking Raises Physics Take-up

Should we expect better from the Times Educational Supplement?

Family meals have bigger impact than “superfoods”, research suggests

Fish oils, nuts and seeds have all been claimed to boost pupils’ brainpower - but a family meal is likely to have a bigger impact than “superfoods” when it comes to studying science, new research suggests.

Children who regularly eat with their families are 30 per cent more likely to take biology and physics at A-level than other pupils, according to a Government study.

Full report at: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6069253

Junk food makes kids less brainy

Eating junk food may be correlated with low IQ, but is this the same as saying that eating junk food causes low IQ? The Sun certainly seems to think so.

Story at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3398102/Junk-food-makes-kids-less-brainy.html