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Child diet ‘linked to IQ’

NHS Choices
And the real truth behind the headlines that eating junk food makes children thick, as parroted by Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC. Hell, even Fox News.
The news story is based on a dietary study that following over 7,000 children. The study compiled information on how often the children ate different food groups at the ages of three, four, seven and eight-and-a-half years old. The researchers also assessed the children?s IQ at the final assessment, when they were eight-and-a-half, to see whether there was any association between diet and intelligence.
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