Breast milk: Breast milk contains a variety of active substances that promote children's intellectual development, especially taurine, which has an important influence on intellectual development, is 10 times higher than milk. According to the survey, the IQ of children who grow up with breast milk is about 3 ~10 higher than that of children who grow up with milk substitutes.
Diet: Children who eat too much meat or gluttony will have reduced intelligence. The intelligence of children who skip breakfast will be affected, because protein, sugar, vitamins and trace elements in breakfast are all important ingredients for brain health.
Obesity: Children who weigh more than 20% of normal children will have a low level of vision, hearing and ability to accept knowledge. This is because too much fat in obese children enters the brain, which will hinder the development of nerve cells and the proliferation of nerve fibers.
Environment: Children who live in boring environment, such as abandoned babies, can't get maternal love and good education, and their IQ will be lower. According to the survey, the average IQ of such children is only 60.5 at the age of 3, whereas the average IQ of 3-year-old children in good environment is 9 1.8.
Drugs: Some drugs will affect children's intelligence. For example, taking antiepileptic drugs for a long time can make their IQ low, and after stopping taking drugs for several years, their IQ will be improved.
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Prenatal education stimulates development
The fetus will feel it in about 3 months. When the mother touches the abdominal wall, the fetus will respond with a kick. By 4 months, the fetus is aware of the external sound, and can feel any sound that can pass through the mother. This is because the ability of human blood to transmit sound waves is much greater than that of air. This kind of sound constantly stimulates the fetal sensory organs and promotes their development, which plays an important role in the development of human intelligence. By 5 ~ 6 months, the fetal cerebral cortex structure has basically formed, and its touch, sight, hearing and taste have developed to a considerable extent, and it can feel some activities outside. At this time, playing some music and giving prenatal education such as abdominal massage to pregnant women can promote the intellectual development of the fetus.
Alkaline food is good for baby.
Human body fluids are slightly alkaline, which is beneficial to the body's absorption and utilization of substances. If children lack alkaline substances, it will affect hormone secretion and nerve activity, and this kind of children's IQ is low. It can improve children's diet structure, and eating more alkaline foods can improve their academic performance.
Generally speaking, green vegetables, nuts, fruits, low-fat milk, various mushrooms, beans and bean products, kelp, etc. are all alkaline foods. Meat, fish, flour, rice and peanuts, such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, are acidic substances after being metabolized by the human body, so they belong to acidic substances.
Some foods, such as walnuts, frogs, pearls, animal brains and red dates, can enhance intellectual development. Foods high in vitamin C are also beneficial to improve IQ. When orange juice with high vitamin C was given to the children for 18 months, their IQ increased by 3.6 on average compared with those who did not use it.
Caress and cultivation promote growth.
Gently stroking the baby can promote the baby's growth and development. Massage the baby's head, neck, chest and limbs three times a day and touch the baby's whole body for 15 minutes every day for more than 10 days.
Enhancing children's memory depends on their usual efforts. Parents should often chat with their children, sometimes say a short sentence, and then ask them to tell it backwards. When walking, let the children remember the names of shops and roads they pass by, and then recite them to see how many they can remember.
Books are an excellent means to improve children's intelligence, and color pictures, such as a dog, an apple, a pen, etc., should be selected for babies under 1 year old. Use pictures to let them know what they can't see or connect with what they can see. For1~ 2-year-old children, books with large pictures and characters should be chosen, which can reflect things they are familiar with, such as flowers, animals, houses, etc., and be related to words. Children aged 2 ~ 3 should choose picture books with story content, and cooperate with children's songs that can be read along. Children aged 3-4 should choose books with new things and more details, such as animal stories, short fairy tales, and short Tang poems. Although they are not well understood, they are also conducive to enhancing their memory. When telling stories to children, children should be encouraged to ask questions and interrupt in order to improve their interest in learning and thinking ability.
Richard M. Restak suggested in "The Brain: The Last New Field" that brain function depends largely on what you eat for breakfast.
There are trillions of nerve cells in the brain constantly engaged in heavy activities, and diet plays a very important role in the normal operation of the brain.
The adult brain only accounts for 2% of the total weight, but it uses 20% of the total energy. If you supply the brain with low-energy food, it will not work well; With high-energy food, it can work smoothly and efficiently.
Therefore, knowing the right "brain food" for the brain is one of the initial steps to improve learning ability.
First, brain nutrition
Some foods not only help to develop intelligence, make thinking more agile, concentrate more, enhance memory, improve learning ability in an all-round way, and stimulate people's creativity and imagination, but also help people cope with stress, overcome depression caused by slow thinking and eliminate pain.
1? Acetylcholine and lecithin
Recent studies in the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries point out that brain function and memory strength are closely related to the content of acetylcholine in the brain besides active exercise and mastering the laws of memory. Eating food rich in lecithin about one and a half hours before the exam can increase people's chances of winning. Experiments show that lecithin can improve people's intelligence by 25%.
Choline-rich foods include: barley malt, peanuts, eggs, veal liver, whole wheat flour, rice, trout, pecans with thin shells and so on.
2? protein
Adequate protein is a necessity for brain function. Many chess champions eat mainly protein before the exhausting game. Protein, especially fish, is an important brain food. But at dinner, should we eat fish or carbohydrates first? Two competing amino acids in protein-alanine and tryptophan-compete to enter the brain first. The first cells to enter the gray matter of the brain play an overall role.
If you want to stay alert after a meal, you should eat protein food first, then carbohydrate, that is, eat fish first, then potatoes and staple food; If you want to relax or take a nap after a meal, eat the staple food first. What to eat first is the key to the immediate impact of diet on brain power. If brainworkers need to keep their heads sharp all day, they should start with a high-protein breakfast, and lunch should be high in protein and low in carbohydrate, and carbohydrate food should be eaten later.
In seafood, beans, poultry and meat, there are a lot of anthranilic acid, which is the main brain stimulating substance; In cereals, bread, dairy products, potatoes, noodles, bananas, sunflower seeds and other foods, tryptophan is rich. Although it is also a food needed by the human brain, it often has a direct inhibitory effect on brain power for a certain period of time, and it is easy to cause drowsiness after eating.
3? glucose
The brain needs100 ~150 grams of sugar every day. However, the sugar content in the nervous system is very small, and glucose must be supplied by blood at any time. When blood sugar drops, the oxygen consumption of the brain drops, and people who are light will feel tired and unable to concentrate on their studies, and those who are heavy will be in a coma.
It is especially easy to happen to people who don't eat breakfast. Fresh fruits and vegetables, cereals and beans are rich in glucose.
4? vitamin
Vitamins A, B and C are very helpful for abstract thinking and good memory.
Vitamin C, known as the brain pump, is a necessary substance for the highest level of mental activity, which can improve about 5 IQ indexes.
Lack of vitamin B 1 will lead to depression, and lack of vitamin B2 will lead to depression, irritability and fear even for people with stable psychology. Lack of vitamin B6 will reduce serotonin, and less serotonin will lead to depression; Lack of vitamin B 12, manifested as emotional out of control or long-term fatigue, is easily mistaken for premature aging.
Vitamin E is the guardian of brain function, protecting nerve cell membrane and brain tissue from free radicals that destroy brain power, prolonging life and slowing down aging. Rich foods include nut oil, seed oil, soybean oil, barley malt, grain, nuts, eggs and dark leafy vegetables.
Vitamin A also protects brain nerve cells from free radicals. Rich foods include animal liver, fish oil, carrots, spinach, loose-leaf cabbage, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, apricots, papaya and all yellow or orange vegetables.
People with severe vitamin deficiency can take medicine to supplement, but they should follow the doctor's advice and not overdo it.