http://blog.contriving.net/2009/03/09/how-to-increase-your-sons-intelligence/ Things that interest me about rationality, science, and technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.contriving.net/2009/03/09/how-to-increase-your-sons-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-32773 Franz Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:14:07 +0000 http://blog.contriving.net/?p=312#comment-32773 Indeed, nutrition is a very important variable in explaining some differences in intelligence and: it's almost free when you think you just need to improve on your eating habits to mobilise those parts of your already inherent intelligence that you own but couldn't fully use due to nutrition-caused underperformance. When mothers were undernourished in omega-3 fatty acids, as a British study showed, their babies/toddlers also ended to score lower on IQ tests than their peers whose mothers had adequate levels of the essential fatty acids. Indeed, nutrition is a very important variable in explaining some differences in intelligence and: it’s almost free when you think you just need to improve on your eating habits to mobilise those parts of your already inherent intelligence that you own but couldn’t fully use due to nutrition-caused underperformance. When mothers were undernourished in omega-3 fatty acids, as a British study showed, their babies/toddlers also ended to score lower on IQ tests than their peers whose mothers had adequate levels of the essential fatty acids.

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