Children who at the age from zero to five years should get the nutrients according to their needs, because of the lack of one element alone will make their growth impaired.
One of the elements such as iron. When children receive the level of food intake with a low content of iron deficiency then results in the brain (reduced ability of the brain), although they get medical treatment from the beginning, it was reported by American researchers.
Results of a study of 185 Costa Rican adolescents show that they are at the age of five suffer iron deficiency in nutrition during the first five years of their lives, never passed the memory tests and the ability to learn, and the greater the iron deficiency in the nutrients obtained at the age of five years, the worse the condition is also in conjunction with their age.
The results, published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Adolescent show how important nutrition at early age from infancy to five years, according to the researchers reported.
"If direct and indirect impacts of the element iron deficiency resulting in the disruption or delay the development base of the brain, it can happen effect 'snowballing' (more and more severe)," said Dr. Betsy Lozoff of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who led the study.
Lozoff and her colleagues, funded by the State Health Institute (USA) studied 185 children since the age of one year.
The children were examined at their first visit to find out how much iron deficiency they suffered and given cognitive tests (the ability to think) regularly in accordance with their age to determine their ability in terms of learning, thinking and remembering.
Young children who receive nutrition with elemental content of iron with a low level given additional food intake but the iron content was not able to make their brain power to normal level even in infants diagnosed with anemia (cases of iron deficiency is often the case)
The researchers then compared the 53 babies with a deficiency (lack) of chronic iron with 132 normal babies.
Among children under five who come from families with middle social strata are not sharp differences in cognitive abilities from infancy to their teens.
"But in children under five from families with low social level seen increasing difference their cognitive disability with age ranging from number 10 at the age of five and became the number 25 at the age of 19 years, reported researchers from the University of Michigan.
One fifth of twenty-five percent of children in the world suffer from iron deficiency anemia in the case of the condition in which lack of iron that cause problems with their blood cells.
The results of both are also published in the same journal found that children who drink formula from a bottle after one year of age tend to have iron deficiency than children who drank the milk formula with the same age but drinking from the cup.
Dr. Trenna Sutcliffe and colleagues from the University of Toronto, monitoring and testing of 150 healthy children with age range 12 to 38 months who drink formula.
They found 37 percent of children who drank milk from a bottle of formula and 18 percent who drink cow's milk from a glass, the level of iron in their nutrition slightly lower than necessary.
"The bottle of milk seems to be a tool that causes excessive consumption of infant formula so that the children who are fed formula milk will be refusing to eat other foods that have a high iron content," the researchers reported.
One of the elements such as iron. When children receive the level of food intake with a low content of iron deficiency then results in the brain (reduced ability of the brain), although they get medical treatment from the beginning, it was reported by American researchers.
Results of a study of 185 Costa Rican adolescents show that they are at the age of five suffer iron deficiency in nutrition during the first five years of their lives, never passed the memory tests and the ability to learn, and the greater the iron deficiency in the nutrients obtained at the age of five years, the worse the condition is also in conjunction with their age.
The results, published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Adolescent show how important nutrition at early age from infancy to five years, according to the researchers reported.
"If direct and indirect impacts of the element iron deficiency resulting in the disruption or delay the development base of the brain, it can happen effect 'snowballing' (more and more severe)," said Dr. Betsy Lozoff of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who led the study.
Lozoff and her colleagues, funded by the State Health Institute (USA) studied 185 children since the age of one year.
The children were examined at their first visit to find out how much iron deficiency they suffered and given cognitive tests (the ability to think) regularly in accordance with their age to determine their ability in terms of learning, thinking and remembering.
Young children who receive nutrition with elemental content of iron with a low level given additional food intake but the iron content was not able to make their brain power to normal level even in infants diagnosed with anemia (cases of iron deficiency is often the case)
The researchers then compared the 53 babies with a deficiency (lack) of chronic iron with 132 normal babies.
Among children under five who come from families with middle social strata are not sharp differences in cognitive abilities from infancy to their teens.
"But in children under five from families with low social level seen increasing difference their cognitive disability with age ranging from number 10 at the age of five and became the number 25 at the age of 19 years, reported researchers from the University of Michigan.
One fifth of twenty-five percent of children in the world suffer from iron deficiency anemia in the case of the condition in which lack of iron that cause problems with their blood cells.
The results of both are also published in the same journal found that children who drink formula from a bottle after one year of age tend to have iron deficiency than children who drank the milk formula with the same age but drinking from the cup.
Dr. Trenna Sutcliffe and colleagues from the University of Toronto, monitoring and testing of 150 healthy children with age range 12 to 38 months who drink formula.
They found 37 percent of children who drank milk from a bottle of formula and 18 percent who drink cow's milk from a glass, the level of iron in their nutrition slightly lower than necessary.
"The bottle of milk seems to be a tool that causes excessive consumption of infant formula so that the children who are fed formula milk will be refusing to eat other foods that have a high iron content," the researchers reported.
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