By the time your child is 3, your toddler’s brain will have tripled in size since birth. This is the biggest learning curve of his or her life and a time when his or her brain is developing trillions of connections.
At the same time, he or she is increasingly physically active and developing his social skills too. With all that going on, our children need a wide range of food to aid in rapid brain development.
“There is pretty solid evidence that children who are hungry are not able to focus, so they have a low attention span, behavioural issues, discipline issues in the school,” said Sibylle Kranz, an associate professor of kinesiology and a registered dietitian nutritionist in the Curry School. “Having children who are well-fed and not hungry makes a difference in their individual performance, and also how much they are contributing to or disrupting the classroom situation.”
Scientists have found around 45 nutrients that are key to brain health, including things like protein, zinc, iron, choline, folate, iodine, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and omega-3 fatty acids.
“From a neuroscientist’s perspective, food is really fundamentally important for brain health, because our brains literally run on nutrients,” says Lisa Mosconi, director of the Weill Cornell Women’s Brain Initiative.
By targeting a few food groups and experimenting with new ways of preparing them, fuelling your family’s brain growth can be easier than you might think.
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