title: The Hungry Brain: The Nutrition/Cognition Connection (In A Nutshell Series)
author: Susan Augustine
description: <em>"Covers everything from obesity and malnutrition to food allergies, biochemical imbalances, and how smart choices in education and nutrition make for important teaching influences."</em> Author: California Bookwatch, October 2007 Published On: 2007-11-07
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  For Sharon
  
  “Sooner or later, life makes philosophers of us all.”
  —MAURICE RISELING
  
  INTRODUCTION
  Departure
  We are hungry. We eat and eat and eat some more, yet still we are
  hungry.
  Sometimes we experience the hunger as a faint presence; other
  times, when the world is upended and fear roams unchecked, the
  hunger swells, and threatens to consume us.
  We reach for our smartphones. With a swipe of a �nger, we can
  access all human knowledge: from ancient Egypt to quantum
  physics. We gobble it up, but still we are hungry.
  What is this hunger tha