School Lunch (image courtesy Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/schoollunch/ )

From an intriguing and somewhat disturbing abstract on Korean middle school students’ nutritional knowledge and eating behavior:

A Study on Nutritional Attitude, Food Behavior and Nutritional Status according to Nutrition Knowledge of Korean Middle School Students.

Lee SW, Sung CJ, Kim AJ, Kim MH.

The purpose of this study was to investigate nutrient intake and food behavior according to the nutrition knowledge of middle school students . . . . Female students skip breakfast and dinner more frequently than male students do. Male students skip lunch and eat fast foods more frequently than females do. . . . However, in female students, possibly due to wrong information on diet or prejudice and outlook, nutrient consumption was low even when they scored high in nutrition knowledge.

(emphasis the Fatman’s. 한국말로 읽고 싶으면 click here.)