Sunday, March 29, 2009

Fish - Food for Brains


According to Reuters Health, Swedish researchers discovered that teenage boys who ate fish more than once a week tended to score high on intelligence tests 3 years later. The study included about 5,000 15-year-old boys.

The boys in the study filled out a questionnaire when they were 15 about their dietary habits and took an intelligence test when they were 18.

These findings are significant according to Dr. Maria Aberg, lead researcher from Goteborg University because "the late-teens are a critical period for the brain 'plasticity' that underlies intelligence and emotional and social behavior. Plasticity refers to the brain's ability to reorganize the connections among cells in response to normal experience, like learning a new skill, or to injury."

The reasoning for the positive impacts of the fish is believed to be the omega-3 fats, found in fish such as salmon and albacore tuna, which helps with brain development and functioning.

Source: http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_fish_boys.html;_ylt=AjVNSUyHx.0EKmu.fp9KLOuz5xcB

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