Gwyne W White, Cesalie T Stepney, Danielle Ryan Hatchimonji, Dominic C Moceri, Arielle V Linsky, Jazmin A Reyes-Portillo, Maurice J Elias
The increasing impact of socioeconomics and race on standardized academic test scores across elementary, middle, and high school
The American journal of orthopsychiatry
investigated relationship nutrition literacy diet quality carotenoid status cognition adults aged 375 170 years n 52 completed 42item nutrition literacy assessment instrument nlit dietary history questionnaire iii analyzed determine healthy eating index skin carotenoids assessed diet quality biomarker selective attention relational memory pattern separation abilities assessed using flanker spatial reconstruction mnemonic similarity tasks respectively statistical adjustments included age sex education body mass index correlations observed nlit scores nlit subscales healthy eating index skin carotenoid status however nlits food label numeracy subscale related greater pattern separation abilities 033 r2 011 p 003 comprehension food labels numeracy information associated memory abilities future work needed test whether targeting working memory attentional processes memory retrieval larger samples may facilitate acquisition nutrition knowledge