Dietary patterns and cognitive achievement among school children in socio-cultural context, a case of Montevideo, Uruguay.
Purpose: The benefits of a healthy diet on children´s cognition have been described in several studies. However, many previous studies have analyzed the effect on general cognitive domains (e.g. intelligence), used measures based almost exclusively on local examinations, and rarely consider social c...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Nutrition Vol. 62; no. 6; pp. 2475 - 2489 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2023
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