Brain Foods for Kids: Over 100 Recipes to Boost Your Child's Intelligence: A Cookbook

by Nicola Graimes

After writing several award-winning health and nutrition titles that have had great success in the UK, Nicola Graimes makes her debut in the US market with the first book to focus on children and brain power and the foods that truly can improve intelligence and those that can hinder it. With her exciting positive twist on the link between the food that children eat and their mental development, Graimes offers parents new ways and reasons to give their children (from pregnancy through primary school) and the essential foods and nutrients they require.

BRAIN FOODS FOR KIDS

-A clear and easy-to-follow introduction to the principles of good childhood nutrition and information on all the latest science on brain-boosting foods

-Practical, kid-tested advice on incorporating the essential foods into a child-friendly diet

-Special "brain-box" features to explain the health-giving, mind-boosting properties of each of the featured dishes

-Teaches how to recognize foods containing additives and pesticides, and how to choose healthy, nutritious ingredients

-Advice on using diet to control and avoid behavioral problems such as ADHD

Graimes divides the book into two sections. The first is full of advice, bursting with color photographs and helpful scientific facts as palatable for adult readers as the recipes are for their children. The second part covers more than 100 recipes for every meal of the day, parties, picnics, and plenty of delicious snacks. And the perforated at-a-glance weekly menu planner can be torn out for posting on the fridge.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting, Nutrition

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was not impressed with this book. It did have a few good ideas for snacks and how to pack a more nutritional boxed lunch. However the recipes were not something an ordinary family could make quickly nor would you have most of the ingredients on hand to make such things. I was also very disappointed that the nutritional values were not included with the recipes. Being diabetic this is important to me for not only how I eat but how my entire family eats. Overall I took away a few tips and a couple of recipes. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody to purchase or even to mooch! If you feel you still would like to look it over see if you can find it at your local library instead.

[Kodie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about brain power foods that can improve intelligence in youngsters. It has won awards and has amazing reviews.
The illustrations are amazing and the recipes and pictures melt your mouth.
This book would be great to use in the classroom by showing the students how what foods they eat affect their brains and body's. Healthy eating does so many things to them inside and out.

[Pghgranola · Rating 4 out of 5]

REALLY good recipes! Brain-food or not, my 3-year old loved everything I made from the book!