The entire premise of the study is absurd. Junk food isn’t a causality of lower IQ scores, it is the home life that does it. Caring parents make far more difference than where you eat. Though the argument could be made that a high junk food diet can be a sign of a lack of strong parenting and familial ties in the home. After all, no one’s at home to cook dinners, what else aren’t they doing?
Perhaps not helping a child learn? Not providing good moral guidance? Perhaps even letting a television or video game be the parent?
It is not processed sugars or corn syrups, or some genetically modified potato starch that lowers IQ, it is the lack of homelife that lets a child turn off their mind, rather than stretching it to see the limitless horizons that are out there.
Perhaps not helping a child learn? Not providing good moral guidance? Perhaps even letting a television or video game be the parent?
It is not processed sugars or corn syrups, or some genetically modified potato starch that lowers IQ, it is the lack of homelife that lets a child turn off their mind, rather than stretching it to see the limitless horizons that are out there.
Precisely! If the parents aren't interested enough to occasionally feed their children something other than junk and fast food, they are probably also not interested enough to read to the children, play with them, make sure that they have toys that encourage the use of imagination, etc.
It's also quite likely that the parents may not be the sharpest tools in the shed themselves and that they have passed that along to their children.
This "study" seems very poorly designed and pretty much useless.
You get the prize for the right answer! May be over these researchers’ heads though.