Teachers devote much time and effort to organizing stimulating environments that will involve their students in learning. When learning fails to occur, who or what should be blamed? The fault-finders can point to teachers, parents, the curriculum, local social pressures on young people, and the student's genes. Unfortunately, because few teachers, parents, or administrators are aware of recent discoveries that link behavior and diet, diet is rarely considered a cause of learning problems. Our society is slowly emerging from a dark age of dietary ignorance. Until recently, many people assumed that the maternal diet did not influence fetal development (Simonson and Chow 1969). However, many recent studies have linked alcoholism and dietary deficiencies in pregnant women to the later behavioral problems of their children. Gradually, the idea has become accepted that mental retardation can be greatly reduced by improving the dietary habits of women of childbearing age (Hille and Reeves 1964). Nevertheless, few people are aware of data showing a strong correlation between breastfeeding and brighter children (Hoefer and Hardy 1929). Obviously, hungry children cannot concentrate on their studies in school. The Citizens' Board of Inquiry in their 1968 report, Hunger, U.S.A., disturbed our complacent attitudes toward widespread nutritional problems. According to this report, six million school-age children were suffering from malnutrition. Food programs, including food stamp programs and the school lunch program, were reaching only 18% of the poor. During the last decade, steady progress has been made toward improving the availability of food for hungry students.