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Article: Optimum Nutrition for Your Child's Mind: Maximize Your Child's Potential.(Book review)
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- Childhood Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Association for Childhood Education International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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OPTIMUM NUTRITION FOR YOUR CHILD'S MIND: Maximize Your Child's Potential. Patrick Holford & Deborah Colson. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press, 2008. 247 pp. Paperback, $14.95. This book provides an easy-to-read, how-to guide for parents to use when selecting foods for their children. The authors' position is that optimum brain function and many emotional and behavioral conditions associated with the lack of proper brain function can be treated through nutrition. Citing research studies from all over the world conducted during the last four decades, the authors weave together research and physiological information about the brain (and how it uses the different ...