Nutrition and Mental Development in Children

Infant and Preschool Psychological Development

“…Children exposed to supplementation both prenatally and postnatally were more likely to show effects than those exposed at older age. Another study used a similar analytic strategy and reported essentially the same findings [40]. It also reported a number of tests for confounding variables, such as the effects of repeated testing, the level of cooperation of the residents of the villages, and morbidity.…”

“…A number of reports of the effects of nutrition supplementation on mental development scores in preschool children were published in the decade after completion of the INCAP longitudinal study [37][38][39][40]. In addition the children's socio-emotional functioning was measured when they were of school age.…”

Web home pages as advertisements

“…We consider whether a home page meets the conceptual definition of advertising, whether it physically resembles an ad, and whether it performs the same functions as an ad. By definition, an advertisement is a "paid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods or services, by an identified sponsor, with predominant use made of the media of mass communication" [1]. And indeed, a home page meets these conceptual criteria: it is paid for by a sponsoring institution/company; it is designed with large audiences in mind and hence is impersonal; it is an entry point to a Web site that promotes one or more ideas, goods, or services; it has an identified sponsor; and the Web, with its hundreds of millions of users, is a mass medium.…”

Prediction of Cognitive Competence in Kenyan Children from Toddler Nutrition, Family Characteristics and Abilities

“…Very few studies have been able to measure levels of all these nutrients, and the distinction between protein and animal protein has rarely been possible. The INCAP investigators (Engle, Irwin, Klein, Yarbrough & Townsend, 1979;Klein, 1979) generally report that supplemental caloric intake, rather than total diet calories or protein intake, was the best predictor of physical growth and cognitive development. In this study, the supplement was atole, described as being composed mostly of corn, which would seem to have little animal protein.…”