Take Note: Food for thought; Checks in the mail

If, as the saying goes, you are what you eat, students in Paul Stitt's nutrition-education program have nothing to worry about.

Students in the biochemist's project have been snacking on "brainy bagels," provided free by Mr. Stitt's Wisconsin-based Natural Ovens Bakery. The bagels contain 50 percent of the recommended daily allowance for all vitamins and minerals, Mr. Stitt said.

Among the nutrients in the bagels is omega 3, an essential fatty acid believed to improve learning ability in animals. Students--almost all 4th graders--in 20 schools throughout the Midwest are eating the bagels as part of a pilot program to...