Can Healthy Foods Make Kids Smarter?Children's Health and ...

Webmaster note: I did find this article interesting, but not fully convinced about this research yet?.But, it seems that eating healthier is still a better choice for your child ? on many levels. Hopefully, some of you will have an opinion on this new research.

From Philadelphia Inquirer?..

Brain food is real ? and so is ?brain-draining? food. So say Australian researchers who checked up on the diets of 7,000 little kids and then looked at their IQs eight years later. The study, from the University of Adelaide, found a connection:

1. Kids who were still being breastfed at six months and regularly ate good-for-you foods like beans, cheese, fruit and vegetables at 15 and 24 months had an IQ up to two points higher by age eight.

2. In contrast, kids who regularly munched on cookies, chocolate, sweets, soft drinks and chips in the first two years of life ? had IQs were two points lower by age eight.

This isn?t the first study to find a connection between what kids eat early in life and their later intelligence ? at least the kind of intelligence measured on an IQ test. In 2011, an on-going British study called the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children found that toddlers who ate more processed, fatty foods had slightly lower IQs. And the more healthy stuff a toddler ate ? like fish and produce ? the higher their scores.

The British researchers scored the diets of the toddlers, ages 1 to 3. For every one point increase in processed foods they ate, their IQs at age 8 were 1.67 points lower. And for every one point increase in healthy food, IQs at age 8 were 1.2 points higher. The interesting thing was, early diets were linked with later IQ even in kids whose diets got better or worse after age 3 ? suggesting that there?s an important early window for helping kids? brains be all they can be. That makes sense. Kids? brains grow fastest in the first three years of life ? when connections between brain cells are made at a rapid rate.

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