Assessment of total choline intakes in the United States
Choline is an essential nutrient and plays a critical role in brain development, cell signaling, nerve impulse transmission, liver function, and maintenance of a healthy metabolism.
May 4, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain-development, critical-role, essential-nutrient, liver-function, nerve-impulse, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets
Diet during pregnancy and early life affects children’s behaviour and intelligence.
The statement “you are what you eat” is significant for the development of optimum mental performance in children as evidence is accumulating to show that nutrition pre-birth and in early life “programmes” long term health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process…
September 17, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain-development, certain-nutrients, children-as-evidence, early-life, long-term, nutrition-pre-birth, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, optimum-mental, pregnancy / obstetrics, process, well-being
Piglet Study Offers Insights Into Iron Deficiency And Cognitive Development
University of Illinois researchers have developed a model that uses neonatal piglets for studying infant brain development and its effect on learning and memory. To determine if the model is nutrient-sensitive, they have done some research on the effects of iron-deficient diets…
December 5, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain-development, done-some, effect-on-learning, effects, illinois, model, neurology / neuroscience, nutrition, studying-infant, the-effects, the-model, uses-neonatal
