Mental age and I.Q. of predominantly vegetarian children.

In Boston, USA in 1977 the mental age and intelligence quotients (IQ) of 28 preschool children given a vegetarian diet since birth were estimated using the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet test. Children were 17 macrobiotic vegetarians, 8 voluntary vegetarians and 3 Seventh-Day Adventists. Anthropometric and Other CABI sites 

• Publication year

  1980

• Venue

  Journal of the American Dietetic Association

• Publication date

  1980-02-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/s0002-8223(21)05127-0PMID 7391449
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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