Word: brainfood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TITLE: BRAINFOOD...
...caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed-wire fence of technical jargon may find other parts of Bourre's book no less pleasing than -- to cite one of his own examples -- an omelet with freshly picked Bordeaux cepe mushrooms...
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