Fish May Be Good for the Growing Brain.

[elleng]

'Children who eat fish tend to sleep better and score higher on IQ tests, a new study has found.

Using self-administered questionnaires, researchers collected information on fish consumption among 541 Chinese boys and girls ages 9 to 11. Parents reported their children’s sleep duration, how often they awoke at night, daytime sleepiness and other sleep patterns. At age 12, the children took IQ tests.

Compared to the one-quarter of children who ate fish twice a month or less, those who had it twice a week or more scored an average of 4.8 points higher on IQ tests.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/well/eat/fish-brain-iq-intelligence-children-kids.html?

[Ohiogal]

1. Fascinating!

We eat fish once or twice a week and have been doing so ever since my kids were small .... they all got good grades and were smart in school, so maybe there's something to that! And the last one just graduated college the week before Christmas! yippeee

[shraby]

2. What about the mercury in fish??

[Igel]

3. So east fish lower on the food chain.

It won't krill you.

[SCantiGOP]

5. Abalone

another pun like that and I will crush you with my mussels.

[Jim__]

4. I know they controlled for socio-economic factors.

But a quick glance at Table 1 from the study does make it look like there are definite differences in the socio-economic classes that the 3 different groups in the study belong to. Among the top entries in the table are father's education, mother's education, and father's occupation and all 3 entries show these indications - the entries from the table lose their formatting if I copy them into the post.