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- Title
Short-term effects of carbohydrates differing in glycemic index (GI) consumed at lunch on children's cognitive function in a randomized crossover study.
- Authors
Jansen, Kathrin; Tempes, Jana; Drozdowska, Alina; Gutmann, Maike; Falkenstein, Michael; Buyken, Anette E.; Libuda, Lars; Rudolf, Henrik; Lücke, Thomas; Kersting, Mathilde
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Intervention studies suggest an influence of breakfast dietary glycemic index (GI) on children's cognition. The Cognition Intervention Study Dortmund-GI-I study examined whether lunch dietary GI might have short-term effects on selected cognitive parameters.<bold>Methods: </bold>A randomized crossover study was performed at a comprehensive school on 2 test days. One hundred and eighty-nine participants (5th and 6th grade) were randomly assigned to one of the two sequences, medium-high GI (m-hGI) or high-medium GI (h-mGI), following block randomization. In the first period, one group received a dish containing hGI rice (GI: 86) ad libitum, the other mGI rice (GI: 62)-1 week later, in the second period, vice versa. Tonic alertness, task switching, and working memory updating were tested with a computerized test battery 45 min after beginning of lunch break. Treatment effects were estimated using the t test for normally distributed data or the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for non-normally distributed data.<bold>Results: </bold>The crossover approach revealed no effects of lunch dietary GI on the tested cognitive parameters in the early afternoon. However, we determined carryover effects for two parameters, and therefore analyzed only data of the first period. The reaction time of the two-back task (working memory updating) was faster (p = 0.001) and the count of commission errors in the alertness task was lower (p = 0.04) in the hGI group.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>No evidence of short-term effects of lunch dietary GI on cognition of schoolchildren was found. Potential positive effects on single parameters of working memory updating and tonic alertness favoring hGI rice need to be verified.
- Subjects
RESEARCH; LUNCHEONS; RESEARCH methodology; COGNITION; CARBOHYDRATE content of food; INGESTION; MEDICAL cooperation; EVALUATION research; GLYCEMIC index; COMPARATIVE studies; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; CROSSOVER trials; REACTION time; STATISTICAL sampling
- Publication
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020, Vol 74, Issue 5, p757
- ISSN
0954-3007
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1038/s41430-020-0600-0