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Vitamin E Is
Top Nutrient
how many words a child under-
stands, whereas genetic and en-
vironmental factors influence how
much a kid talks.
"Some children are born to be
Vitamin E was named the top nu-
trient of 1996 by the Council for chatty while others are born to be
Responsible Nutrition. The fat- reticent about sharing their grow-
soluble vitamin also won praise ing vocabulary knowledge," says
from the American Heart Associ- Yale psychologist J. Steven
Reznick. "Don't worry about the
ation.
"Vitamin E appears to prevent child who is not talking too much
coronary heart disease, a disease if that child seems to understand
caused by fatty plaque clogging what he or she hears and is asked
the arteries that feed the heart," to do."
Talkativeness is at least par-
says Jan Breslow, M.D., president
of the association. Breslow cites tially a matter of genetics, and re-
searchers estimate that 10
several studies in '96
percent to 15 percent of children
that show anti-oxidant
are born shy and
vitamin E may prevent
remain shy as
the disease.
they grow. Shy
Although one
!raN1/4v
j kids tend to
study found that
cling to their
dietary levels
mothers and
of vitamin E
are reluctant to
may be pro- L. 0 , k
talk and join oth-
tective, most
er children in play groups.
show the
Parents often urge reticent
benefits coming from
toddlers to talk a lot when
vitamin supplements. In one
what really matters is de-
study, 1,000 heart disease
termining
how much the
patients were given daily
child actually un-
doses of 800 or 400 in-
derstands.
ternational units for
"A child's en-
18 months
vironment in-
(another
fluences word
1,000 pa-
comprehen-
, dents took a placebo).
The patients who took vitamin E sion, but there is no evidence that
had 75 percent fewer new heart talking more than normal will in-
crease word comprehension," says
attacks than those who didn't.
Reznick.
"A constant barrage of
A review of current scientific
evidence in the Journal of the words would likely only confuse a
American Medical Association toddler."
Chatty parents, however, offer
points to the importance of sup-
a
child
environmental and genet-
plements to get doses of vitamin
ic
encouragement
to talk more.
E that will offer benefits. But the
"Talkative
parents
provide
a rich
American Heart Association still
linguistic
environment
that
en-
maintains that healthy people are
hances
language
development,
better off getting their nutrients
from food rather than supple- but they also provide a genetic
ments. However, you'd have to eat impetus toward talkativeness,"
7 cups of peanuts, 2 cups of corn says Reznick. El
oil or 19 cups of spinach a day in
order to get 100 IU of vitamin E - Copley News Service
the minimum amount re-
searchers consider protective.
The Council for Responsible
Nutrition advocates a two-
pronged approach: Eat a healthy
diet and take a vitamin E sup- It's common knowledge among
plement. O
athletic circles that living at a
high altitude increases the
Copley News Service
body's ability to store oxygen in
the blood, which improves aer-
obic capacity. That's why many
athletes choose to train in the
mountains and partly why ath-
letes raised in high-altitude re-
Parents of quiet toddlers shouldn't gions of Mexico and Kenya
worry too much, especially if the make such strong long-distance
child appears to understand what runners.
In an effort to duplicate this
he or she hears. Researchers at
effect,
Crunch fitness club in
Yale University and the Institute
of Behavioral Genetics at the Uni- New York offers a room that
versity of Colorado, Boulder, stud- supposedly offers the benefits of
ied 408 pairs of twins to determine high-altitude training at sea lev-
that language comprehension is el. The special room claims to al-
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