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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/processed-foods-lower-childs-iq.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Children's IQs may be lower if they eat too many processed foods in early childhood, a study suggests" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-processed-foods-lower-childs-iq.jpg" alt="Children's IQs may be lower if they eat too many processed foods in early childhood, a study suggests"/></a></p>
<p>Diets high in fats, sugars and processed foods are lowering toddlers&#8217; IQs, a new study has suggested.</p>
<p>It found eating habits among three-year-olds shape brain performance as they get older.</p>
<p>A predominantly processed food diet at the age of three is directly associated with a lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, according to a Bristol-based study of thousands of British children.</p>
<p>Food packed with vitamins and nutrients notably did the opposite, helping boost mental performance as youngsters got older, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports.</p>
<p>Researchers said toddlers&#8217; diets could change IQ levels later in childhood, even if eating habits improve with age.</p>
<p>&#8220;This suggests that any cognitive/behavioural effects relating to eating habits in early childhood may well persist into later childhood, despite any subsequent changes to dietary intake,&#8221; the authors wrote.</p>
<p>The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is tracking the long-term health and well-being of around 14,000 children.</p>
<p>Parents completed questionnaires detailing the types and frequency of the food and drink their children consumed when they were three, four, seven and eight-and-a-half years old.</p>
<p>Every one-point increase in the study&#8217;s dietary pattern score &#8211; a record of processed fat intake &#8211; was associated with a 1.67 fall in IQ.</p>
<p>The brain grows at its fastest rate during the first three years of life. &#8220;It is possible that good nutrition during this period may encourage optimal brain growth,&#8221; the report added.</p>
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