Smart Foods for ADHD and Brain Health - Rachel Gow

Smart Foods for ADHD and Brain Health

How Nutrition Influences Cognitive Function, Behaviour and Mood

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2021
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78592-446-0 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
This book takes a nutrition-based look at ADHD and brain health, combining the latest research with personal stories, and practical tips and recipes. This is an invaluable guide for professionals working with families, and parents, seeking alternatives to prescriptions to help children reach their full potential.
Changing one's diet not only improves physical health, but benefits mood, behaviour and cognitive function at a fundamental level. This book highlights the link between nutrition and mental health and demonstrates the crucial role of diet in supporting individuals with ADHD.

Written by an internationally-recognised leader in the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, Dr Rachel Gow takes a nutrition-based look at ADHD and its management. Combining the latest research with the inspirational stories of a range of professionals and individuals whose lives have been touched by the issues raised, this book also includes accessible tips throughout and a chapter of recipes to promote brain health. This is an essential guide to understanding the interplay of brain health and nutrition, and supporting families to build a diet that optimises brain function and health.

Dr Rachel Gow is a Registered Nutritionist and Child Neuropsychologist specialising in ADHD and Nutritional Neuroscience. She was a guest researcher at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland (2012-2016), is affiliated with King's College London and teaches students at both London Metropolitan University and the University of Surrey, UK. She frequently speaks internationally, including at the International Society for Nutrition in Psychiatry Research. She is the founder of the charitable trust Nutritious Minds, and the mother of a child with ADHD and dyslexia.

1. The Brain and the ADHD Brain
2. The Gut-Brain Axis
3. Food as Medicine and Food as Poison
4. Overcoming ADHD Genetics with Nutrition
5. The Right Fat: Omega-3 Fatty Acids
6. Other Nutrients for Coping with ADHD
7. Food Allergies and Sensitivities
8. Sugars and Dyes
9. Diets that Help and Diets that Hinder
10. Eating Mindfully

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Rory Bremner, Robert Lustig
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 228 mm
Gewicht 382 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-10 1-78592-446-X / 178592446X
ISBN-13 978-1-78592-446-0 / 9781785924460
Zustand Neuware
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