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28th Oct 2015 - Nutraingredients - Prebiotics could be used to battle neuropsychiatric disorders: Oxford study

27 Oct 2015 - New York Times - Cutting Sugar Improves Children's Health in Just 10 Days

23 Oct 2015 - FoodNavigator - Healthy Mediterranean style diet could block brain ageing

Health Check: seven nutrients important for mental health - and where to find them

An increasingly robust body of research points to the detrimental effect of unhealthy diets and nutrient deficiencies, and to the protective value of healthy diets – along with select nutritional supplements as required – for maintaining and promoting mental health.

B12 deficiency side-effects from Nitrous oxide / 'laughing gas' are no joke - The Global Drug Survey 2015 findings

Recreational abuse of so-called 'laughing gas' (nitrous oxide) is leading to more and more people reporting symptoms of brain and nerve damage from resulting Vitamin B12 deficiency - and few seem aware of the seriousness of the risks

16 Sep 2015 - Nutraingredients - Omega-3 supplements may help attention for kids with and without ADHD

15 Sept 2015 - JAMA study links low vitamin D levels to 'profound' and 'rapid' cognitive decline

11 Sept 2015 - BBC News - Fish diet could ward off depression

10 Sep 2015 - Eurekalert - Eating a lot of fish may help curb depression risk -- at least in Europe

Association equally significant among men and women, pooled data analysis shows

9th Sept 2015 - Huffington Post - ADHD and Diet: The Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Dutch prisoners enrolled in dietary supplement aggression study

Violent offenders in the Netherlands will receive micronutrient and omega-3 supplements as part of an intervention to reduce aggressive behaviour among prisoners.

Dietary Fat and the Human Brain: Redefining Food for Thought

31 Aug 2015 - Nutraingredients- EU folate fortification failure caused 8,400 neural tube defects in 11 years

31 Aug 2015 - Nutraingredients - Gut bacteria play vital role in benefits and harms of different fats: Mouse data

27 Aug 2015 - FoodNavigator - Stop counting calories and start promoting nutritional value, urge researchers

When it comes to cutting levels of obesity-related heart disease and death, it’s time to stop counting calories, and start to make simple changes that improve the nutritional value of diets, argue public health experts.

27 August 2015 - Nutraingredients - Low vitamin D linked to schizophrenic brain dysfunction

24 Aug 2015 - Nutraingredients - The link between psychosis and malnutrition

First-time psychosis sufferers are far more likely to be deficient in micronutrients and protein than the general population – and more intervention studies are needed to explore strategies against this, say UK researchers.

Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison

The maverick scientist has long argued that sugar is as harmful as cocaine or tobacco – and that the food industry has been adding too much of it to our meals for too long. A convert hears more about his theory

20 Aug 2015 - Medscape - Omega-3 Treatment Shows Long-term Psychosis Prevention

The findings from this long-term follow-up study of young people at very high risk for psychosis, who were treated seven years ago for just 12 weeks with either long-chain omega-3 fatty acids or placebo, are nothing short of astounding.

14 Aug 2015 - Nutraingredients - Kids with poor diets score poorly on cognitive tests: Finnish researchers

The worse the diet quality of children, the worse they score on cognitive tests - especially boys, research finds.