5 March 2008 - FAB CONFERENCE - Feeding Young Minds - Edinburgh

DIET AND BEHAVIOUR - INFLUENCING THE NEXT GENERATION

A one-day CPD conference revealing the truth about how harmful eating habits can affect the lives of children and adolescents, with practical advice on how to challenge today's food culture.

• Do fast-food diets and high-speed lifestyles conflict with our genetic make-up? If so, what legacy are we leaving the next generation? And who's influencing this?

• Behaviour, learning and mental health problems in children are rising as fast as rates of obesity and diabetes. Food affects brains as well as bodies, and early malnourishment can have devastating effects on both. Conversely, improving nutrition can help reduce antisocial behaviour as well as symptoms of ADHD, dyslexia, depression and related conditions.

• Governments are trying to improve children's diets, but young people's exposure to marketing pressures in our time-poor, anxiety-ridden, media-driven society is at an all-time high. Widespread action is needed to reverse current trends - and we all need to take responsibility for what we're feeding young minds.

• Hear from leading experts the latest evidence on links between diet, brains and behaviour - and the implications for policy and practice.

Who should attend

EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS | HEALTH PROFESSIONALS | LOCAL AUTHORITY STAFF | POLICY MAKERS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM | VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS | CATERERS | PARENTS | CARERS | MEDIA

(as advertised on the Health Promoting Schools website - Events at www.healthpromotingschools.co.uk)

Food and Behaviour Research is a registered CPD provider with Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS).

Programme

• Dr Alex Richardson - Food and Behaviour: An overview

• Dr Paul Clayton - Dietary changes and their implications - past, present and future

• Professor John Stein - Nutrition, Brains and Behaviour

• Sue Palmer - Dealing with the marketing maelstrom and other toxic influences

• David Rex - Dietary strategies for special needs, and the whole-school approach

• Dr Alex Richardson - Omega-3: What's the real evidence?

About our speakers

Dr Paul Clayton, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; independent nutrition consultant; designs clinical trials for nutritional therapies in hospitals and gives lectures on nutrition and health to public and professionals. His book 'Health Defence' is a first-class source of information and education.

Sue Palmer, Former primary head teacher, writer, expert presenter and independent consultant on primary education. Author of 'Toxic Childhood: how modern life is damaging our children . and what we can do about it' and 'Detoxing Childhood: What parents need to know to raise happy, successful children' www.suepalmer.co.uk

David Rex, Lead Dietician, NHS Highland & Healthy Eating in Schools Co-ordinator. He uses a whole school approach to food and health, as part of a multi-agency Highland Health Action Group for Integrated Children's Services. David provides Scotland's only specialist NHS dietetic clinic dealing with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and ADHD.

Professor John Stein, University of Oxford Professor of Neurophysiology, and Chair of the Dyslexia Research Trust. Pioneer of research into brain systems governing vision and attention, and how these may explain many of the memory, auditory and visual problems associated with dyslexia and related conditions. (NB John doesn't cook fish and his brother, TV fish chef, Rick Stein, does not do neuroscience!)

Dr Alex Richardson, former teacher, founder-director of FAB Research and visiting research scientist at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol. Best known for leading treatment trials of omega-3 fatty acids for child behaviour and learning, now carrying out similar research with adults and collaborative investigations of genetics and biochemical/nutritional factors in relation to behaviour, learning and mood.

BOOK BEFORE 31 January 2008 TO RECEIVE A FULL 15% REDUCTION

Organisations and Professionals - £180
Education / Health / Local Authority / Charitable organisations (with an income in excess of £1,000,000)
Early bird - £153 for bookings taken before 31.01.08

Voluntary Organisations and Concessions - £112
Students / Parents / Community Councils / Community Action groups / Charitable organizations (with an income of less than £1,000,000).
Early bird - £95 for bookings taken before 31.01.08

Group Booking Rates available for 5 or more. Contact Fiona on the number below.

FAB Associate Members (Existing members only) - £80

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4 easy ways to register:

• Online - click on the link at the top of this page. (Please have your debit/credit card ready).

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• By email: [email protected] (include postal address and telephone number).

• By post: download a booking form below and post to the address given on the form.

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