Correlation of Academic Performance and Dietary Habits in School Children

Adolescence is always an interesting phase for doing research as they themselves is in search of new things as well as self-identity. This study aims to study the correlation between academic performance and dietary habits on school children. A sample size of 201 (60 girls and 141 boys) ofage ranging from 15–19 years was taken for the study. Adolescent Food Habit Checklist by Johnson F et al which contains 23items was the tool used for the study. The Academic performance was taken from the previous year recordsof the students. The result ended up that there exist no significant correlation between the two variables but there exist significant gender differences on the variable food habits but no gender difference was found in academic performances of the adolescents.