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The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter

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Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a fatty acid naturally present in breast milk, significantly improves psychomotor functioning in breastfed babies whose mothers received a vegetarian source of DHA supplement, according to the results of a study presented in April at the Pediatric Academic Societies' 2001 annual meeting in Baltimore. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas found that the babies of DHA-supplemented mothers scored higher on psychomotor development tests than the babies of placebo-supplemented mothers, and continued to ...

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