<p>In this study I wanted to examine if a missed school lunch could affect students cognitive ability. The students were in the age of 15-16 years old. Previous studies show that there is a significant connection between glucose and cognitive ability and from those I have based my theory. For this thesis a randomized experiment have been used where the participants were divided into two groups one experiment- and one control group. The experiment group was not supposed to eat anything after 10.00 am prior to the testing and the control group was permitted to eat as normal. Before the test the students answered a form about their food hab-its, school motivation and grades so I could see if their food habits could affect their grades. After that the students were tested in their cognitive ability at 13.15 pm trough a cognitive test constructed by me. The experiment didn’t show any significant difference between the ex-periment group and the control group. One interesting connection was however found be-tween the student’s food habits and their grades, students that ate more regularly had signifi-cant better grades.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:vxu-2527 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Brundin, Olof |
| Publisher | Växjö University, School of Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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