A practical guide to providing first-aid for the mind with the power of food. Nutritionist Natalie Savona shows how what we eat can dramatically affect our state of mind. Each chapter contains up-to-date, clear information with practical advice. Chapter One The Physiology of Melancholy looks at the physiological link between nutrition and mental well-being. Chapter Two Mood's Many Guises looks at specific mind and mood related ailments, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), insomnia and Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS), get through these and other common disorders through improvements in diet. Chapter Three Feel Good Food presents more than 80 specially commissioned, easy-to-follow recipes, each with an at-a-glance nutrient profile. Also contained are chapters on nutritional supplements, as well as advice on improving mental fitness and mood through simple exercise and relaxation techniques.
Title: The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind
Author: Savona, Natalie
ISBN: 9781904292227
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Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Publication Date: 2003-01-16
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.9528 kg
At last, the thinking glutton's cookbook. If we are what we eat then you do not have to be a genius to realise that many of us must be very unhealthy indeed. The author is a professional nutritionist who regularly contributes to many national newspapers, and this, her first book, contains so much good advice and common sense about food, diet and physical and mental well-being that it seems odd that the cookery shelves in our bookshops are not already packed with books entitled The Kitchen Shrink. Philosophers have for centuries debated the mind/body problem, how our physical nature connects with mental life. The answer was there in front of us all along, on a plate. A clever book about an important subject and a cut above your average healthy eating guide.