date:Aug 09, 2012
home-prepared food, ready-prepared baby foods, breastfeeding, and 'discretionary' or junk foods.
Dietary data was collected by questionnaire and patterns were extracted at each time using principal component analysis, the authors reveal.
At all ages, higher scores on aDiscretionarypattern (characterized by biscuits, chocolate, sweets, soda, crisps) were associated with 12 point lower IQ,say the researchers.
Breastfeedingpattern at 6months andHome-made contemporarypatterns at 15 and 24months