1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797449003321

Autore

Marcus Susan Archibald

Titolo

The hungry brain : the nutrition/cognition connection / / Susan Archibald Marcus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4522-9469-0

1-4522-9786-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

In A Nutshell collection

Disciplina

372.3730440941

Soggetti

School children - Nutrition - Requirements

Nutrition - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Nutrition - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 � Where�s the Food?""; ""Chapter 2 � Malnutrition of the Brain""; ""Chapter 3 � Not all Fats are Bad""; ""Chapter 4 � Sugar""; ""Chapter 5 � Not all Foods are Good: Food Allergies""; ""Chapter 6 � Exercise and the Brain""; ""Appendices""; ""Glossary of Terms""; ""Resources""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

Feed the brain first to make the nutrition/cognition connection!  Focusing on nutrition's role in promoting learning, the author calls on educators to model good food choices for their students. Building on a simple three-part framework of plant foods, animal foods, and junk foods, and incorporating exercise, the text shows educators how: Healthy eating provides a powerful link to learningChildhood obesity, food allergies, and other disorders may be related to eating habitsBreakfast is still the most important meal of the dayBrain-jogging exercises enhance brain activity, improve physical hea



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969908103321

Autore

Muir John <1838-1914.>

Titolo

The story of my boyhood and youth / / by John Muir; with a foreword by Vernon Carstensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1965

ISBN

9786612555381

9781282555389

1282555383

9780299036539

0299036537

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

508.092

Soggetti

Naturalists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. A Boyhood in Scotland -- II. A New World -- III. Life on a Wisconsin Farm -- IV. A Paradise of Birds -- V. Young Hunters -- VI. The Ploughboy -- VII. Knowledge and Inventions -- VIII. The World and the University.

Sommario/riassunto

Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution's infancy.