10 June 2008 - The National Children's Nutrition Conference - Cardiff

Better Nutrition, Better Learning, Better Futures

This major new conference will give you the opportunity to hear from international experts who are undertaking the latest research in nutrition, and how this links to behaviour, learning and wellbeing. It will provide you with the route from research to practical management, and enable you to gain an understanding of ways in which schools can take this information on board in practical ways, and push food higher up the school agenda to ensure that we give all our children the bright future they deserve.

Audience

This conference is suitable for health and educational professionals, GPs, parents, those working with young people in youth services, nutritionists, and researchers working in the fields of child development, neuroscience and education.

Programme

• Chair: Prof David Benton

• Jane Hutt AM - Welcome and opening remarks

• Professor Michael Crawford - We are what we eat - driving forces for evolution

• Dr Paul Clayton - Malnutrition in children today: what we can learn from the Victorians

• Professor Bonnie Kaplan - Keep your bananas in the refrigerator: mechanisms by which nutrients affect brain function

• Dr Alex Richardson - They are what you feed them - omega 3 - what's the real evidence?

• Dr Stephanie Matthews - When milk makes children ill

• Professor Amanda Kirby - TV or not TV? That is the question! Why we need to sit at the table

• Professor Kevin Morgan - The school food revolution and ways to use local/organic food in public food provisioning

• Fiona Hamilton-Fairley - Why do children and young people need to learn to cook?

Further information and details of cost can be found on the downloadable flyer and booking form at the link below.