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Article: Food & mood. (neuroscience professor Richard Wurtman) (Interview)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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Can what you eat make you happy, sleepy, or alert?
Do the nutrients in so-called "smart drinks" improve your memory, give you energy, or satisfy your appetite?
"It may surprise some people to learn that many food constituents can actually affect the chemical composition of the brain," says Richard Wurtman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among those constituents: certain amino acids (the building blocks of protein), choline (which isn't, but perhaps should be, considered an essential nutrient), and ordinary old carbohydrates.
Wurtman's findings are preliminary. He believes that some food constituents should be studied further, and ...