The association between obesity and academic performance in youth: a systematic review

Santana, Carla; Hill, James O.; Azevedo, Liane B.; Gunnarsdottir, Thrudur; Prado, Wagner Luiz do

doi:10.1111/obr.12582

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“…It was revealed that during the training many students of universities and colleges receive a serious increase in weight, which can lead to significant problems in their health (Gowin, Cheney, Gwin, et al, 2015). There is also a series of studies showing the relationship between the development of obesity and the decline in academic achievement in students (Santana, Hill, Azevedo, et al, 2017). By the way, it was revealed that with increasing body weight students begin to suffer from lack of physical activity and mental wellbeing (de Vos, Hanck, Neisingh, et al, 2015).…”

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Recently, there has been an increase in the number of young people who are overweight and obese reaching the scale of a global epidemic. Besides, the scientists have recorded a significant increase in the body weights of the students during their study years. One of the reasons for this phenomenon may be a lack of knowledge by innovative students about the risks of developing obesity and related chronic diseases. There is a need for comprehensive and long-term research to increase students' knowledge of the problems associated with developing obesity. In any case it is necessary to make an objective assessment of the physical development level of students, their physical activity level, their everyday lifestyle and food quality. Therefore in this study, we analyzed and evaluated the changes of the physical development and health parameters of the students from the Siberian federal university (SFU) over a long time period (2002-2014). Material & methods: Meanwhile, annually 800 students of the 1-3 courses of the SFU selected at random and took part in the study. Half of the examined students were the boys (n=400) and the other half were the girls (n=400). Moreover, both the boys and girls were allocated into two equal groups. It is important to note that there were the groups: male-1 (n=200) and female-1 (n=200) who were relatively healthy students. There were the groups: male-2 (n=200) and female-2 (n=200) where the students were with various diseases. An important point is that the age of the researched students is between 18-20 years. The main parameters of the study included the body weighing of the young people indicating their growth and the restoration time of the functional systems of the body after the load test (A. Martinet test). All in all the authors' opinion is that the values of these parameters will allow giving an objective assessment of the presence or absence of a threat of developing obesity and overweight among the students. Results: The obtained data allow to come to a conclusion about the significant increase (P <0.01) in the average body weight of the students in the groups male-1 and male-2 for the period from 2002 to 2014. On average, the body weight of the students increased by 6 ± 0.4 kg. It makes sense that in the groups of girls there were female-1 and female-2 and minor fluctuations of body weight were discovered during quite a long period from 2006 to 2014. In addition, the evolution of the growth values of the students was mixed among the boysmale-1 in different periods of the research. Besides, the boys who are the male-2 revealed a significant increase (P<0.01) in the average growth of young people from 177±0.5 cm in 2002 to 180±0.2 cm in 2014. In fact, the dynamics of growth in the groups of girls who were female-1and female-2 was mixed in different periods of the research. The average growth rates among the girls of both groups were found within the range of 2 ± 0.3 cm. in a word, the indices of the recovery interval of the students' body after the test load allowed us to disti...

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“…These results were also found in Rio de Janeiro, in a study carried out among students from 6th to 9th grade, in which there was also no association between diet and nutritional status with school grades 9 . Santana et al 56 , in a systematic review, also did not observe sufficient evidence to support the direct link between food consumption and poor school performance of schoolchildren.…”

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Relationship between food consumption, nutritional status and school performance

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Conde

2018

J. Hum. Growth Dev.

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Introduction: Adequate feeding during childhood and adolescence is extremely important, due to its act directly on physical and cognitive development. Objective: To verify the relationship between dietary intake and nutritional status with school performance. Methods: It is an observational, quantitative and cross-sectional study of 134 students aged 9 to 11 years. The nutritional status was measured using the Body Mass Index by age and gender, and food consumption was assessed through the 3-day Dietary Recall. For the knowledge of the school performance, the report cards of 2016 were consulted. A questionnaire was used to collect data regarding the marital status. Results: Regarding nutritional status, 59,7% of the students presented eutrophy, 18,7% overweight, 15,6% obesity and 6,0% underweight. The consumption of calcium (p<0,001) and iron (p<0,001) were significantly below the values recommended by the Dietary Reference Intakes. Obese children consumed significantly more lipids (p=0,026) and calories (p=0,003) than the other students. The participation of ultra processed foods represented 35.50% of the total energy value, with a positive correlation between their consumption and the amount of calories consumed (p=0,022) and inverse correlation with zinc intake (p=0,007). Conclusion: There was no significant association between dietary intake and nutritional status with school performance, but it was found that the marital status of the parents was associated with student performance, the children of married parents had a higher educational achievement than the children of separated parents.

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“…between BMI and academic achievement [11,10,19]. Direct links suggested the deleterious consequences of obesity on school absence, lack of self-confidence, and hyperactivity interfering with academic achievement [20]. The rational explanation behind these findings could be attributed to the lacking of confidence in the overweight and obese student's which subjects them to exploitation and criticism of other students leading to an increase in studying days' absence conferring lower academic achievement.…”

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The Adversary Effect of Obesity on Academic Achievement Among Adolescents

Rayyan

Al-Majali

Batarseh

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Asian J Pharm Clin Res

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Objectives: This study aims to sough implications of the independent and combined demographic variables of weight status, age, food habits, and physical activity on academic achievement in adolescents. Methods: The study sample consisted of 940 male students in the second secondary class; four secondary schools from Hail city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia participated in this study during April 2017. Weight status was assessed through body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2). Participants filled the questioner to evaluate food habits and physical activity on academic achievement. Results: The mean weight was 74.21±17.36 kg interquartile range (IQR) (45–125), while the mean height was 171.27±7.37 cm IQR (140–193). The mean BMI was 33.73 (IQR 22.0–39.8). The overall prevalence of childhood obesity was 49.6% while the prevalence of overweight was 9.04%. The mean academic score for the second secondary class was 70±9.99 IQR (44–99). BMI has endorsed negatively on academic achievement (r=−0.322, p<0.05). Conclusion: We can summarize the independent variables as obesity ameliorates academic achievement in a counteractive way; high BMI affects total academic score in a negative pattern, whereas practicing mental games influenced positively the academic achievement and performance.

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The association between obesity and academic performance in youth: a systematic review

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