Water supplementation improves visual attention and fine motor skills in schoolchildren

Education and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 75-79

  Booth, Paula ^a   Taylor, Bianca ^a   Edmonds, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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