Early Life Diet Linked to Adolescent Intelligence
A new study has synthesized decades of research to evaluate how dietary patterns shape cognitive performance and academic outcomes in youth aged 8 to 19. Aggregating data from 73 studies, comprising 48 controlled trials and 25 prospective cohorts, investigators demonstrated that nutritional deficits during the first years of life, particularly infancy, carry long-term consequences that lower intelligence scores years later in adolescence. The findings highlight that while early childhood establishes the baseline foundations of cognitive health, further high-quality research is required to determine if the structural and functional changes of adolescence offer a true secondary window for nutritional intervention. ….[READ]
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