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Should we be eating more fish for a healthy brain? Scientist Michael Crawford, Director of the London Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition will discuss the importance of marine life to the future of human development in a free public lecture at the Maritime Museum Fremantle on 10 November.

This lecture will look at how food, particularly marine lipids, have played a determining role in the way that creatures developed on earth, and will discuss how nutrition is shaping life in the future. It points to the links between poor nutrition and modern degenerative diseases.

Professor Crawford will suggest that the solution to the rise in brain disorders lies in a radical reappraisal of our food system to attend to the requirements of the brain. However this solution is problematic, as there is not enough fish caught today to meet the current FAO-WHO (2010) recommendations for DHA worldwide.

He will argue that for the first time in evolutionary history we are in a position to choose and drive the direction of our intelligence and that this direction will determine our future.

Professor Crawford's visit is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives' co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute,  the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.

WHAT: Public Lecture - Food, Evolution and the Future

WHEN: 2pm, Sunday, November 10, 2013

WHERE: Maritime Museum Fremantle

COST : Free, but RSVP required. Register a seat online

Media references

Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies)  (+61 8)  6488 4797