Obesity Affect Children's Achievement

 

Children who are obese not only have the risk of diabetes and asthma. A new study shows obesity is also affecting the learning achievement. As reported DailyMail, researchers from three universities in the U.S. found that children aged three to nine years are overweight, have a worse math scores than their peers who weighs lighter.

Leader of the study, Sara Gable of the University of Missouri, Columbia, says her research proves that elementary school children who suffer from obesity, can destabilize the social and emotional learning in school achievement as well.

The team of researchers from the University of Missouri, University of California, and University of Vermont, takes a sample of more than 6250 school age children and make the observation of these children since they were three years old until they were in fifth grade.

Compared with children who have never experienced obesity, these children are shown to have difficulty in math since first grade and continue through grade five. Meanwhile, the girls who are obese also have difficulty in socializing.The study also produced, the low math scores in boys and socializing difficulties caused by obesity in girls, triggering feelings of sadness, loneliness and a  sense of worry them.