And you know that one of the ways to make a child smarter - is it right, to feed it in a balanced way? Three important microelements provide good brain work: iodine, iron and zinc. If a child does not get enough of these substances, then his memory will be weak, and his capacity for work is low, and he will think poorly and slowly.

Than iodized salt is better than usual?.

The fact that iodine affects the intellectual development of young children, scientists have known for a long time. The ability to put words into sentences, small hand movements, which involves the development of speech, attention, visual and auditory memory, are all better for those children whose mothers during pregnancy were taking iodine preparations, and the children themselves were given such food that gave them necessary doses of this trace element.

In those countries and regions where there is a natural deficiency of iodine and there is no iodine prophylaxis, the population's intellect is on the average 10-15% lower than in other countries that are more iodine-safe. This state of affairs is associated with large economic losses, therefore, society is interested in ensuring that the intellect of new generations is high. This led scientists to find out what is happening with the intellectual performance of older children with a lack of iodine.

In one of the schools in Moscow (and Moscow, by the way, poor in the iodine region), scientists evaluated the memory, attention and efficiency of schoolchildren. One group included children with low iodine levels in the body and, as a consequence, low performance. In the other - with normal iodine and higher performance.

Children from the first group for 6 months were given iodine preparations at the rate that they were prescribed for physiological development. Six months later, at the peak of the school load, these children, once suffering from iodine deficiency, had higher rates of mental performance than their successful iodine peers, studied better, grew less tired. Semi-annual saturation gave excellent results: the troika turned into horoshistov. Teachers, by the way, did not know which of the children receives iodine, and who is the "dummy".

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