WCIA: The link between healthy eating and brain outcomes for toddlers

Feb. 10, 2026 | AHS Staff Health and Kinesiology professors talked about early childhood nutrition with local news It’s no secret that the food you eat every day can impact your body or impact how you feel. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois are learning the link between what toddlers are eating, and how […]

What toddlers eat might shape how they think years later, study suggests

Feb. 02, 2026 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo By the time children in Pelotas, Brazil, reached their first day of school, some had already been influenced by decisions made years earlier—at the family table A new analysis from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort suggests that dietary patterns at just two years of age are associated with cognitive […]

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