Diet, Parental Behavior, and Preschool Can Boost Children’s IQ

Here's an article from today's Star2 section which caught my attention:

Title: Diet, Parental Behavior, and Preschool Can Boost Children’s IQ
By: Association for Psychological Science
Source: http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Children_s_Health_200/Diet-Parental-Behavior-and-Preschool-Can-Boost-Children-s-IQ.shtml

Key highlights:

Overall, the results of the meta-analyses indicated that certain dietary and environmental interventions can be effective in raising children's IQ.

Supplementing pregnant women and newborns with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, foods rich in Omega-3, were found to boost children's IQ by more than 3.5 points. These essential fatty acids may help raise intelligence by providing the building blocks for nerve cell development that the body cannot produce on its own.

Interventions focused on interactive reading - teaching parents how to engage their children while reading with them - were found to raise children's IQ by over 6 points. These interventions do not seem to have an effect for children over 4 years old, suggesting that the interventions may accelerate language development, which, in turn, boosts IQ.

One word of advice, though. While it's important to raise a child's IQ level to ensure that they can survive the tough competition in school, it's also equally important to raise a child's EQ level to ensure that they can handle their own emotions and feelings amidst the multitude of negativity in the world around them.

I'm sure parents don't just want smart kids, they also want smart and happy kids, right?