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Colorado Legacy Foundation 2012 Summit, Presentation Resources

Posted 4/2/2012 12:04 AM by Nicole Garneau | Comments

Resources to compliment the "Taste of Health" presentation at the Colorado Legacy Foundation Healthy School Summit, 2012-04-04

Denver Museum of Nature & Science Info:

Free Admission for organized school and youth groups /teachers/featured-updates/free-admission/
Information for school programs and teacher programs /teachers
Award winning health exhibition, Expedition Health /exhibitions/current-exhibitions/expedition-health/

PTC Bitter Taste Strips: You can purchase these from a variety of suppliers online. They are very inexpensive.

Brain Energy Requirements (Children): http://www.nestle.com/Common/NestleDocuments/Documents/Library/Documents/Nutrition_Health_Wellness/Food-and-Nutrition-Issue06-Brain-Apr2007.pdf
(originally HT Chugani, Neurodevelopmental Neuroimaging, New York 1996.)

Food Choices and Executive Functions:
Cohen et al. 2011. Obesity, orbitofrontal structure and function are associated with food choice: a cross-sectional study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191593/?tool=pubmed

Exercise Increases Mitochondria in Skeletal Muscles:Adhihetty et al. 2007. The effect of training on the expression of mitochondrial biogenesis- and apoptosis-related proteins in skeletal muscle of patients with mtDNA defects.
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/content/293/3/E672.full

Exercise Increases Mitochondria in Neurons:
Steiner et al. 2011. Exercise Training Increases Mitochondrial Biogenesis in the Brain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21817111

Mindful Eating:
Cornell University Food and Brand Lab: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/index.html
Wansick et al. 2008. Consequences of belonging to the "clean plate club". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18838655

Denver CRAFT:
Denver Cardiovascular disease Reduction: A Focused Transformation Full website to come, check back!)

Executive Functions:

Micshel et al. 1988. The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3367285
Blair and Razza. 2007. Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17381795
Duckworth and Seligman. 2005. Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Duckworth%20and%20Seligman
Slutske et al. 2012. Undercontrolled Temperament at Age 3 Predicts Disordered Gambling at Age 32: A Longitudinal Study of a Complete Birth Cohort. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22457426
Moffitt et al. 2011. A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21262822
Maayan et al. 2011. Disinhibited eating in obese adolescents is associated with orbitofrontal volume reductions and executive dysfunction. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=maayan%20disinhibition

Brain Development:
Lenroot et al. 2007. Sexual dimorphism of brain developmental trajectories during childhood and adolescence. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17513132

Reward Circuit:
Stice and Spoor. Relation of Reward from Food Intake and Anticipated Food Intake to Obesity: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2681092/?tool=pubmed

Exercise and Mindfulness in Learning: