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Diet, quality pre-school can boost kid's IQ
Sunday January 27, 2013 08:09:59 PM,
IANS
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Washington: There is
an effective way of raising your kids' IQ -- just supplement their
diets with fish oil, send them to quality pre-school and also
engage them in interactive reading, vouches a new study.
A team led by John Protzko, doctoral student at the New York
University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development, combined the findings from existing studies to
evaluate the overall effectiveness of each type of intervention.
Collaborating with his professors Joshua Aronson and Clancy Blair,
leaders in the field of intelligence, Protzko analyzed the best
available studies involving samples of children from birth and
kindergarten from their newly assembled "Database of Raising
Intelligence," the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science
reports.
"Our aim in creating this database is to learn what works and what
doesn't work to raise people's intelligence," said Protzko.
"For too long, findings have been disconnected and scattered
throughout a wide variety of journals. The broad consensus about
what works is founded on only two or three very high-profile
studies."
Overall, the results of the meta-analyses indicated that certain
dietary and environmental interventions can be effective in
raising children's IQ, according to a New York statement.
Supplementing pregnant women and newborns with long-chain
polyunsaturated fatty acids, foods rich in Omega-3, were found to
boost children's IQ by more than 3.5 points.
These essential fatty acids may help raise intelligence by
providing the building blocks for nerve cell development that the
body cannot produce on its own.
Sending a child to pre-school was found to raise his or her IQ by
more than four points, and pre-schools that include a language
development component were found to boost IQ by more than seven
points.
The link between pre-school and intelligence could be a function
of increased exposure to language or the result of the overall
cognitive complexity of the environment.
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