Northern Nutritionals

Tag: cognitive

  • Prenatal Iron

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    Karline Jensen
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    Arija et al. (2019), in a prospective cohort study in Spain, found that children born to mothers who had taken prenatal iron supplements (14-30 mg/day) scored better on tasks designed to evaluate working memory and executive functioning at age 7 than those whose mothers had not taken prenatal iron.  Nguyen et al. (2021), in a…

  • Dairy

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    In a 2020 study of Chinese people living in Singapore,1 Talaei et al. found that those who ate more dairy foods had better cognitive function, and study participants who drank milk every day were 14% less likely to be categorized as cognitively impaired on the SM-MMSE test they used to assess them.  In contrast, Muñoz-Garach…