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Mood and Performance Foods

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Functional Foods

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Over the past two decades a substantial body of research has developed demonstrating that foods can have an impact on behavior and mood. This phenomenon is in contrast with other functions of foods covered in this volume, because many of the behavioral effects of foods are rapid and short lived rather than slowly accumulating over time. General reviews of the topic of foods that have an impact on mood and performance can be found in Kruesi and Rapaport (1986), Kanarek and Marks-Kaufman (1991), Lieberman (1989), and the National Research Council (in press).

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Meiselman, H.L., Lieberman, H.R. (1994). Mood and Performance Foods. In: Goldberg, I. (eds) Functional Foods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2073-3_7

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