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Nutrition and mental performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Peter J. Rogers  and
Helen M. Lloyd
Peter J. Rogers
Affiliation:
Consumer Sciences Department, Institute of Food Research, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Road, Reading RG6 2EF
Helen M. Lloyd
Affiliation:
Consumer Sciences Department, Institute of Food Research, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Road, Reading RG6 2EF
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Symposium on ‘Nutrition of the Brain’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , July 1994 , pp. 443 - 456
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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