Posted Feb 2, 2013
If your kid’s diet has enough “long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids” in it, he’ll grow up smart enough to know what that means.
Apparently, it’s fish oil.
Researchers from New York University used a “meta-analysis” — you would know what that is, too, if you had eaten more seafood as a toddler — to put together a Database of Raising Intelligence.
And an analysis of the database revealed a few relatively simple ways to boost a young child’s brain power, according to a new report in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Highlights include:
Fatty acids increased IQ by more than 3.5 points, apparently because they provide the building blocks for brain-cell development.
Preschool raised IQ by more than four points, and some preschools do better than seven points.
And “interactive” reading — not just reading to a child, but asking questions and encouraging him to follow along — bumped IQ at least six points.
Read more on the subject at tulsaworld.com/sciencedaily Michael Overall 918-581-8383 michael.overall@tulsaworld.com
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