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HYPERACTIVITY AND DIET

Philip Graham (Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Child Health, London)

Nutrition & Food Science

ISSN: 0034-6659

Article publication date: 1 February 1987

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Abstract

Links between the ingestion of food and changes of behaviour and emotional state may arise in a variety of ways. A useful attempt to establish a series of definitions was made by a Joint Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and the British Nutrition Foundation, but this failed to take account of the possibility of reproducible psychological reactions, without observable physical changes, occurring independently of the person's awareness of the nature of the food ingested. As this phenomenon is crucial to the subject, a revised set of definitions is proposed here.

Citation

Graham, P. (1987), "HYPERACTIVITY AND DIET", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 87 No. 2, pp. 2-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059421

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1987, MCB UP Limited

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