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A one-day Food and Behaviour Research conference, ‘Nutrition for behaviour, learning and mood’

Start date 05/05/2010 | End date 05/05/2010
Where is this happening? Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh

An exceptional opportunity to hear from a panel of top UK experts, researchers and practitioners about how nutrition affects behaviour, learning and mood.

  • How does what we eat affect the way we feel, think and behave?
  • What is ADHD?  What’s the evidence that nutrition can make a difference?
  • What are the consequences of our present day diets?  Find out the real truth about the food we consume, and what it’s doing to our brains and bodies
  • Learn how nutrition affects your immune system – critical for your everyday wellbeing, and in preventing allergies and infection
  • Omega-3 for the brain – can the right foods really help your memory, and stave off those bad moods?
  • How can you encourage healthy food choices for your children and family? Dealing effectively with food culture, ‘fussy eating’ and food cravings


Speakers:
Dr Roma Armstrong,
(Research and Development, Chief Scientist Office, Scotland; Senior R&D Manager, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board)
Prof Michael Crawford, (Director, Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, London Metropolitan University)
Dr Alex Richardson, (Founder Director, FAB Research; Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford; Author of ‘They Are What You Feed Them’)
Rachel Gow, (Dept of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London)
Dr Paul Clayton, (Chair of Forum on Food & Health; Author of 'Health Defence' and 'Pharmageddon')
Dr Frank Ryan, (Medical Advisor to Sheffield PCT; Honorary Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology, Sheffield University, and author of ‘The Eskimo Diet’ and ‘Darwin’s Blind Spot’; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London)
David Rex, (Child Health Dietitian NHS Highland, & Healthy Eating in Schools Coordinator)

What our delegates have said:
"Inspiring presentations and life-changing information" Teacher
"A fantastic day!  It will have a major impact in my work as an NHS GP"
"This is without doubt the best conference I have ever attended"
Head Teacher, Primary School with Special Needs Base
"Extremely valuable conference - complex science was explained in a way we could all understand showing its enormous importance in our food and menu choices" Kitchen Supervisor
The general public and most professionals simply do not have easy access to independent, accessible, evidence-based scientific information on how nutrition can affect behaviour, learning and mood”  Speaker at FAB Research conferences

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