Eating egg yolks, legumes and nuts during pregnancy can boost IQ of babies

Eating egg yolks, fish, legumes, nuts and broccoli daily during last trimester of pregnancy can boost IQ of babies.

By: Agencies | | Published: January 5, 2018 10:41 am

यूनिसेफ की एक रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक प्रदूषण भ्रूण की सेहत पर खतरनाक असर डाल सकता है। यह खतरनाक रिपोर्ट संकेत देती है कि तुरंत कुछ कदम उठाने और सावधानी बरतना शुरु करने की ज़रूरत है। यहां हम लिख रहे हैं हवा में बढ़ते प्रदूषण के कुछ भयावह प्रभावों के बारे में जो आपके पेट में पल रहे बच्चे की सेहत पर बुरी तरह असर कर सकता है।

Attention mothers-to-be! Eating egg yolks, fish, legumes, nuts and broccoli daily during last trimester of pregnancy can boost IQ of babies, suggests a recent study. According to researchers, including egg yolks, lean red meat, fish, poultry, legumes, nuts and cruciferous vegetables can have lifelong benefits on offspring cognitive function. Researchers from Cornell University showed the role in prenatal brain development and cognitive benefits in the offspring of pregnant women who daily consumed close to twice amount of choline during their last trimester. Study’s first author Marie Caudill explained through animal models using rodents, that supplementing the maternal diet with additional amounts of this single nutrient has lifelong benefits on offspring cognitive function. These are the 7 essentials of a perfect pregnancy diet. Also Read - Why you shouldn’t miss a flu shot during pregnancy?

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The team examined 26 expectant mothers and randomly divided them into two groups. About half of the women received 480 mg/day of choline, which is slightly more than the adequate intake level and the other half received 930 mg/day. They further tested the information processing speed and visuospatial memory of babies at 4, 7, 10 and 13 months of age to measure IQ in childhood. They examined as to how long each baby took to look at an image on the periphery of a computer screen, a measure of the time it takes for a cue to produce a motor response. Every pregnant woman should include these 10 superfoods in her diet. Also Read - 72% pregnant women with Covid-19 are asymptomatic: Study

The findings indicated that the information processing speed were significantly faster for the group of women who consumed 930 mg/day when compared with the group that took 480 mg/day over the same period.The research appears online in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

Source: ANI

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Published : January 5, 2018 10:41 am

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