Eating nuts during pregnancy can increase children's intelligence
According to a new study in Spain, eaten during pregnancy, nuts, positively affect children's intelligence in the long term.
Barcelona Global Health Institute in the research, the first 3 months of pregnancy in the children of hard-shell eating mothers' attention, short-term memory and cognitive functions were more advanced.
In the study, 2200 pregnant women and their children in Spain were tested at the age of 18 months, 5 and 8 years after birth.
Florence Gignac, who conducted the research, stressed that this was "the first study on the benefits of eating nuts during pregnancy for the child's brain development in the long term."
Gignac said the following about the research:
"During pregnancy, the brain undergoes a series of complex processes, the mother's nutrition is an important factor in the development of the baby's brain and has long-term effects.
"The nuts we studied in the study were nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts and pine nuts.
"We believe that their benefit is due to the fact that these nuts contain a high proportion of folic acid and fatty acids such as omega-3 and omega-6.
"These substances accumulate in brain tissue, especially in the anterior part of the brain, which is responsible for memory and executive functions."
In the study, the mentioned benefit, three times a week in the first 3 months of pregnancy, eating close to 30 grams of hard-shell eating mothers who are said to have been identified.
Nuts are known for their ability to reduce the risk of hypertension, oxidative stress and diabetes in adults as well as to protect against cognitive impairment due to aging.
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