When you eat nuts during pregnancy, your child may be smarter.

Original title: Eat nuts during pregnancy, children may be smarter
Spanish researchers have found that mothers often eat nuts during pregnancy, or can make children smarter when they grow up.
2,200 Spanish children and their mothers over an eight-year basis by researchers at the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona. The mothers responded to the pregnancy diet, specifically mentioning whether nuts such as walnuts, almonds, peanuts, pine nuts and hazelnuts were consumed during pregnancy. The children were tested at the age of one and a half, five and eight to allow researchers to examine their cognitive development.
factors such as the mother's education level, social class and other eating habits, the researchers found that children with mothers who ate nuts during pregnancy performed better than their peers at all stages. The data showed that mothers consumed 30 grams of nuts a week for the first three months of pregnancy and scored an average of 3 percent higher on tests designed to examine short-term memory, concentration time and cognitive function after birth.
times quoted researcher Holdi Hurwes as saying on the 8th that this is equivalent to a 3-point higher IQ test score. Although this figure may sound small, it is very important for the population as a whole. "In this way, there will be a significant reduction in children with learning disabilities, and more children with ultra-high IQs."
that the benefits of eating nuts during pregnancy may be that nuts are rich in fatty acids such as omega-3 and omega-6. However, given the findings based on observational studies, the researchers are not yet sure that there is a causal link between the mother's consumption of nuts during pregnancy and the child's intelligence, only that the two are related.
study was published in the European Journal of Epidemiology on July 7.