Toddler's junk food diet can lead to lower IQ

What we put in our bodies (and by extension) make our children, has far-reaching implications for better or worse.
While we constantly hear about how bad eating habits children are fat, an epidemiological study shows that young children diet to future cognitive skills may impact.
Researchers from the University of Bristol saw data on 3966 children born between 1991 and 1992. The children's parents had to survey your children nutrition completed by age 3, 4, 7 and 8.5 and children À of age 8.5 measured.
Parents their children use a variety of food and beverages, including details like the fat content of milk, refined bread or whole grain were and how much soda or coffee consumed children recorded.
Parents reports assigned to Explorer kids one of three categories of diet:
A "processed" diet, high in fat, sugar and Kalorien.Eine "traditional" diet (within the UK), comprising meat, potatoes, bread and vegetables. A "health conscious" eating whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, rice, pasta and lean proteins like Fisch.Insgesamt children ate empty calories fast food diet in the age of 3, had a small drop in IQ at the age of 8.5, compared to kids eating healthy Lebensmittel.Die study controlled for other factors that may affect IQ, such as parental education level, maternal diet during pregnancy, socio-economic status and stressful life events.For each unit increase in processed foods children lost 1.67 points in IQ.For each unit to increase healthy eating children gained 1.2 IQ points. early diet appeared later verbal skills kids, more than their performance impact. "Performance IQ refers to an individual innate intellectual ability, while verbal IQ more impact of education that is affected by factors such as parenting and environment reflects," wrote the researchers.
According to the researchers is this study in accordance with previous studies in this age group, which suggests that overall eating habits are associated with behavior in certain hyperactivity and school performance both later child in early childhood.
This study shows that common adage, "Food is fuel" refers both to how we our bodies and our brains fuel. Toddler's brains are a mad house of action - forming neural connections at a dizzying rate. Is it only appropriate that diet would give some influence one way or another on this delicate and intensive processes.
Although dietary recall studies prone to inaccuracies and IQ questionable tests, deserves the validity of the role of food intake and some work intellectual study more. It would be interesting if you could to tease further out more specific dietary patterns within the groups. Like the question I had to do me as much fish consumption with the results.
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