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Pregnancy, Fatty Acids, and the Endocannabinoid System (ECS): One Substrate Story Behind Two Epidemics
Protecting Mothers: How Micronutrients Can Prevent Postnatal Depression for Mothers who are Depressed During Their Pregnancy
Healthy pregnancy diet boosts kids' emotional regulation - Clinical trial
Food for thought: How diet affects the brain over a lifetime
From womb to world: The role of micronutrients in shaping infant development
For women with antenatal depression, micronutrients might help them and their babies – new study
Prenatal supplements fall woefully short in providing crucial nutrition during pregnancy – and most women don’t even know it
Eating emulsifiers during pregnancy and lactation linked to health risks in mouse offspring
FAB WEBINAR - Feeding Humanity: The Key Role of Nutrition in the Mental Health Crisis
YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS! - The Food Programme - Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide
Critical Brain Nutrients: Evidence that Current Dietary Advice Harms Mental Health – and Potential Solutions
Could low iron be making mental health symptoms worse?
A larger dose of vitamin D may decrease psychiatric symptoms at school age
FAB WEBINAR - How Food Affects Your Brain: The Role of Nutrition and Diet in the Mental Health Crisis
How diet affects a child's mental health
Origins of Health - How Important Is Iron for the Developing Brain?
One in two pregnancies are affected by iron deficiency, yet many women don't get a simple screening test to check
The UK must introduce folic acid fortification in foods, say scientists
Epigenetic Influences on Depressed Mood: A Concise Review
Infant blood markers predict childhood mental health
'High-fat' (Omega-6-rich, Omega-3 deficient) maternal diet can cause life-long changes in the fetal brain
High-fat (Omega-6-rich, Omega-3 deficient) maternal diet can cause brain damage in the unborn child
How a pioneering study of child health has influenced a generation of parents
Expectant mothers can mitigate the impact of marijuana on baby's brain development - with more choline
14 May 2019 - MedicalXpress - Prior eating disorders linked to long-term depression risk for mothers
Psychology Today - The Brain Needs Animal Fat
Studies raise questions over how epigenetic information is inherited
Babies of overweight mothers may risk developing self-regulation problems
Omega-3s and cognitive health: From memory and moms and babies, and from mood to the military
Maternal binge drinking linked to mood problems and alcohol abuse in offspring
12 December 2017 - Nutraingredients - Prenatal folic acid supplementation helps lower postpartum depression risk: China population study
Prenatal lack of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids linked to schizophrenic symptoms in mice
Omega-3 and perinatal depression: Nutritional strategies can help combat “under effective” treatment
Everything you need to know about vitamin B12 deficiency
02 March 2016 - The Telegraph - Half of pregnant women attending their first maternity appointment are overweight or obese
Parents and teachers unaware of mental benefits of good childhood nutrition
Why Most People Fail to 'Get the Fats Right' - and How You can do Better!
Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D may control brain serotonin
Diet, nutrition essential for mental health
08 January 2015 - Science Daily - Could gut microbes help treat brain disorders? Mounting research tightens their connection with the brain
12 November 2014 - Nature - Gut-brain link grabs neuroscientists
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Increase Brain Volume
20 October 2014 - The Guardian - Gaps in mental health care for new mothers cost UK Â£8bn a year – study
Research-backed Nutrients for Kids?
20 August 2014 - NHS - Is breastfeeding inability causing depression?
20 August 2014 - Cambridge University News- Breastfeeding linked to lower risk of postnatal depression
Pre-pregnancy risk drinking predicts toddler behavior problems
The Conversation - You are what you eat: how diet affects mental well-being
New findings on the importance of Omega-3 for Child Behaviour and Learning
CAPT Joseph Hibbeln, M.D.: Nutritional Armor - Brain and Behavior
Generation game: Effects of omega-3 deficiency may worsen over consecutive generations
Mental disorders affect more than a third of Europeans
Do Gut Bugs Practice Mind Control?
(Maternal) Diets Low In Omega-3 Linked to Depressive Behavior In Mice
17 Nov 2010 - Nutraingredients - Jury still out on omega-3 for post-natal depression
Scotland's Poor Health 'caused by a lack of sunshine'
UK Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum Report on the links between diet, mental health and behaviour
1st January 2006 - Sustain - Changing Diets, Changing Minds - how food affects mental health and behaviour

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