Nutrition and Children’s Intelligence Quotient (IQ): Review

Child nutrition especially during the early years is crucial for the development of the whole body and the mentally in specific. Mechanism by which the nutrition can affect the Intelligence is still questionable. Aim of this review was to identify the latest studies done in the last 5 years regarding nutrition and IQ of the children. Systematic review was done using Pubmed , searching engine, with words like nutrition, food, diet and IQ of the children. We include only orginal studies done in the last 5 years (from 2008-2013). Nineteen original articles were selected in 4 areas acoording to the outcomes of the studies, they are nutiritonal status, diet, breastfeeding and milk formaula. As a conclusion, Despite the long period since the studies on association between nutrition and intelligence began in last decade, this issue still under huge contraversay. There is no doubt about the importance of nutrition during the early years of child development, but is nutrient deficinces can lead to low intelligence.