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The outline of this paper is as follows. Below, I present as elective review of the literature examining the link between obesity and adverse health outcomes, as well as a more comprehensive survey of the papers which have studied the relationship between obesity and cognitive outcomes. From this review of the literature, it emerges that there havebeen no studies of the link between obesity and cognitive outcome conducted using Canadian data. Also, most of the existing papers which find a link between obesity and cognitive outcomes do not deal properly with the problem of causality. That is, these studies do not study whether it is children with lower cognitive ability who become obese, or whether it is obesity which causes poor cognitive developmsent. The objective of this study is to address these gaps in the literature. Section four explains the empirical methodology and section three describes the data used for this analysis. Section five reports the results and section six concludes.