2007-04-26 11:33:06Ame.

070108 科技英語簡報 。


這個只是把舊的東西放上來做後備,別管它。

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Low food security affects school children’s academic performance, weight gain, and social skills.

低糧食保障對美國學齡兒童的認知、學習能力和體重增加等影響

Reporter : Alice Lam / N4 / #492420642

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INTRODUCTION

1.food insecurity without hunger (不致飢餓的糧食不足)
迳 low food security (低糧食保障)

2. developmental trajectory (發育軌跡)
academic performance
weight gain / overweight
social skills



STUDY-1

Objects & Methods

* 21000 children entering kindergarten in 1998 & following to their 3rd grade

* Using Longitudinal Cohort Study

* Food insecurity 迳parent interview / modification of the USDA module


* Children’s academic performance, height, and weight were assessed directly

* Social skills were reported by teachers

* Households were grouped into 4 categories / fixed-effects models

Outcomes

* food sufficient relates to good academic performance, social skills and good developmental trajectory

* low food security with ill effects

STUDY-2

Objects & Methods

* Using the Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) to analysis

* 6 to 11 year-old children and 12 to 16 year-old teenagers of US


Using Regression analyses

Food insufficiency / cognitive / academic / and psychosocial measures in general

and then within lower-risk and higher-risk groups


Results

* 6- to 11-year-old food-insufficient children :
significantly lower arithmetic scores
likely to have repeated a grade
having difficulty getting along with other children

* Food-insufficient teenagers :
suspended from school,
having difficulty getting along with other children


* Further analyses:
divided children into lower-risk / higher-risk grps


Conclusions

Negative academic and psychosocial outcomes are associated with family-level food insufficiency

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REFERENCES

1. Jyoti DF, Frongillo4 EA and Jones SJ (2005) Food insecurity affects school children’s academic performance, weight gain, and social skills. J Nutr 135:2831-2839.

2. Alaimo K, Olson CM, and Frongillo EA Jr (2001) Food insufficiency and american school-aged children’s cognitive, academic, and psychosocial development. Pediatr 108: 4-53.

3. Casey PH, Mda and Simpson PM (2006) The association of shild and household food insecurity with childhood overweight status. Pediatr 118:1406-1413.

4. Jones SJ, Jahns L and Laraia BA (2003) Lower risk of overweight in school-aged food insecure girls who participate in food assistance. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 157:780-784.