Maternal diet does influence children’s neurodevelopment
2. What primary sources did you find (e.g., transcripts, videos of politician speeches, tweets from public figures, scientific studies)? For each source, write at least one or two sentences explaining what you learned. Include all links.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031735
Longitudinal study showing a nutrient-rich maternal diet during pregnancy correlates with an improved cognitive performance in children at aged 4–7.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2016.00144/full
Review of studies linking maternal intake of protein and folate to structural and functional brain development in offspring.
https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/72/4/267/1854852
Shows that poor maternal nutrition negatively affects neurodevelopment
3. What secondary sources did you find (e.g., newspapers, magazines)? Only use secondary sources if sufficient primary sources are not available. For each source, write at least one or two sentences explaining what you learned. Include all links.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/maternal-nutrition/
Summarizes research evidence
4. What potential biases or interests might each of your sources have?
Observational studies are never truly isolated
5. What evidence supports the claim you are fact-checking?
Multiple longitudinal cohort studies link maternal diet quality to better cognitive outcomes.
Nutrient-specific evidence like how folate supplementation reduces neural tube defects
6. What evidence undermines the claim you are fact-checking?
Some effects may be subtle or confounded by genetics and environment.
Not all studies show large measurable differences for everything
Maternal diet is just one of many factors
