Article 1
- Undernourished decrease ECE activity levels and become apathetic
- This affects their cognitive development
- Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) children are more likely to be cognitive impaired
- Undernutrition leads to a malfunction in school
- Children in low-income families are more affected
http://www.pgia.pdn.ac.lk/files/Annual_congress/journel/v18/8.pdf
Article 2
- A summary of nutritional needs of the brain by analyzing research from cognitive neuroscience and healthcare fields indicates that sufficient intake of healthy food is necessary for brain function
- Malnutrition leads to the low levels of academic performance
- Based on Maslow’s theory, human must cover physiological needs in order to perform well in order to achieve other necessities
- According to Maslow’s hierarchy ” the need of desire for achievement will not drive a person’s thoughts and behavior until needs on the lower levels have been met”.
- Vygotsky and the socioculturalist say that a person’s context shapes the human’s behavior influenced by eating habits and determining priorities in learning
- ”Maslow and Vygotsky provide a context for physiological and cultural approaches for how food affects human brain function and capability as well as sociocultural attitudes toward food and academic performance” (Woodhouse and Lamport, 2012)
- Overnutrition
- Research indicates that excess of calories is related with a relevant effect to harm children’s brain
- Calories surpluses can “reduce synaptic plasticity and increase the vulnerability of cells to damage by causing free-radical formation” (Gomez-Pinilla, 2010)
- Different studies found out that children are eating about half as nutritious food as recommended, and they are not consuming enough vegetables, whole grains, and legumes
- They are eating poor nutritional food, and that affects their well performance in school
- Effort to address this problem is been made, it includes parents, health professional, educator
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1074&context=cpe
- Measures of child nutritional status and cognitive development were collected from birth through preschool
- Nutritional supplementation from gestation through two years of life was associated with small consistent improvement in cognitive development
- Result provide strong evidence for the importance to provide low-income families nutritional programs to address unmet nutrition in children and to potentiated beneficial effects of their cognitive development
Article 3
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0379572120907763
Article 4
- Caregivers have the opportunity to influence or control childs food environment
- Children at early age are easier to be influenced to a healthier diet
- Nutrition-related behavior in ECE will be influenced by socio-economic context, and the resources available to them
- Children living in high deprivation areas are more likely to eat fast food and drink unhealthy sugary drinks
- ECE center can help to buffer those unhealthy preference and redirect to a healthier diet
Article 5
- Lunchable by Kraft Heinz, a processed food, is in schools
- Administrator made decision influenced by food industries
- Lunchable are available to 30 million children under the decision of the National School Lunch Program
- Example of power that food industry has in congress and the School Nutrition Association, which represents 50 000 workers
- Processed food contributes to the obesity problem in children, which is a mayor issue in the country
- Statistics show that mortality has been increased in people between 35 to 64 years old in the last two decades, and these deaths are related to obesity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/lunchables-school-lunch-ultraprocessed-foods/
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