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"The brain gets fed first! That is the important idea for the book, The Hungry Brain's Nutrition Cognition Connection that relates to: mood, mind, memory and behavior. After several years of teaching children with attention deficit disorder (ADD and ADHD), learning disabilities, and severe behavior problems Dr. Augustine decided to look to the brain and to biochemistry. The theme throughout the book is biochemical individuality and feeding the very hungry brain. Many students and adults suffer from malnutrition of the brain and other specific biochemical disorders such as pyrrole disorder and metal metabolism disorder. Making ""smart"" choices for the hungry brain is front and center of this cutting edge book. As the educational community faces the challenges of childhood obesity and food allergies, people are eager to learn how to guide their students and their own children in the care of the body and especially feeding their brains. Dr. Augustine provides a simplification of the food groups: animal foods; plant food and junk foods. She tells why breakfast is still the most important meal of the day and even more so if a child has problems with learning or behavior. Highlighted as well is the importance of daily movement, producing nerve growth factor (NGF). Exercise is a family affair! Additionally, there are brain joggers for parents and teachers as practical strategies for teaching nutrition as part and parcel of a lifelong learning strategy and healthful daily habits. Teachers will appreciate the mini lessons for easy integration into their curricula."

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Dr. Susan Augustine has been in the field of education her entire adult life, teaching across the spectrum of pre-kindergarten through graduate students. Establishing her career as a special education teacher she soon realized how nutrition and biochemistry are involved in processes of mood, mind, memory and behavior. Working with children and adults with depression, learning disorders, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, and other health impairments she turned her attention to the brain and specifically what we feed our brains. Dr. Augustine conveys a nutrition and health perspective into all of her work in life and has done so in the United States and in Singapore. The author of: Attention Deficit Disorders; What We Know, What it Means, and What We Can Do, The Hungry Brain's Nutrition/Cognition Connection; Tools for the Cooperative Classroom, and Thinking About Nutrition the New Nutrition Education. Dr. Augustine's classes have assisted people in moving toward a more healthful way of thinking and living. Bringing the viewpoint of mental and physical health, Susan is also a nutrition counselor, public speaker, trainer of teachers, and has appeared as the nutrition expert on television programs in Chicago: Health Town and cable televisions, Food for Life.

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