多吃健康食品 變聰明寶寶

 

According to a recent research by scientists from the University of Bristol, children brought up on healthy diets are more intelligent compared with their junk food-eating counterparts.

英國布里斯托大學科學家最新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，從小就吃健康食品的孩子比那些吃“垃圾食品”長大的同齡人更加聰明。

In the study, scientists tracked the long term health of around 14,000 children born in 1991 and 1992.

科學家追蹤調(diào)查了1991年和1992年兩年內(nèi)出生的14000名兒童的健康狀況。

The scientists found that a predominantly processed food diet at the age of three was associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, irrespective of whether the diet improved after that age. Every one point increase in dietary pattern score was associated with a 1.67 fall in IQ.

科學家們發(fā)現(xiàn)，無論后來飲食改進與否，3歲就已開始吃“垃圾食品”的孩子，八歲半時的智商確實偏低。其中，飲食類型每增加1分，智商便降低1.67。

Brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life – indicating that head growth at this time is linked to intellectual ability, according to researcher Kate Northstone. "This suggests any cognitive and behavioral effects relating to eating habits in early childhood may well persist into later childhood, despite any subsequent changes," she said.

研究員凱特稱，大腦在人類出生后的前三年里生長速度最快，這意味著此期間的大腦生長狀況同智力息息相關(guān)。“研究表明，不管以后變化如何，這種兒童在早期同飲食習慣相關(guān)的認知行為狀況將有可能持續(xù)到童年晚期。”