FOOD & MOOD Why does your energy take a nosedive mid-afternoon? Why do you sometimes have so much trouble concentrating? Why do you crave chocolate? Why is your appetite out-of-control? These questions and more are answered in this completely updated and revised edition of FOOD & MOOD. Drawing from thousands of the most up-to-date studies, this second edition explains in easy-to- read, interactive style why what you eat has a direct influence on how you feel, think, act, and sleep. The revolutionary Feeling Good Diet, as well as the many self-assessments, quizzes, and questionnaires, allow you to customize the step-by-step advice to take control of your eating habits, moods, and mind. Rights Information Publisher: Henry Holt, Hardcover (1995) Henry Holt, Paperback 2nd edition (December 15, 1999) Territory: World Rights Available: Reviews: "In the early 1990s, when Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., a nationally recognized award-winning nutrition expert and the nutrition correspondent for Good Morning America, wrote the first edition of her groundbreaking book, Food & Mood, scientists were just beginning to understand how what we eat affects how we feel. Over the past several years, nutrition research has exploded, and this edition of Food & Mood has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest findings on the relationship between diet and mental and emotional well-being. Food & Mood covers all the bases for eating right for a healthy body and mind and includes practical, nutritionally sound advice for putting Somer's Feel Good Diet into practice. Somer starts out by simply and eloquently elucidating the science behind the food-mood link. She explains how food affects mood; the basis of food cravings; how diet is connected to stress, PMS, and fatigue; and what foods banish the blues, boost brain power, and improve sleep naturally. Need to stop overeating and abusing food? In the second section, Somer gives compassionate, pragmatic advice for turning your eating habits around for good. The final section gives detailed, step-by-step suggestions and guidelines to help you eat right to feel great. Included are shopping tips, daily menus, information on designing a supplement program, and tantalizing recipes. (Who knew burritos, brownies, and chocolate chip cupcakes could be good for you?)" - Amazon.com "What at first glance would appear to be yet another look at the relationships of food with emotional state is, instead, an extremely well-researched probe of what a good diet can mean to both body and mind. Somer, editor of Nutrition Report, dispels many of the myths about specific foods and diet patterns, putting in their place scientific studies showing the links between mood and diet...Readers will appreciate Somer's no-nonsense style and the absence of contrived anecdotes to make important dietary points...a valuable nutritional sourcebook." - Publishers Weekly "An excellent source ...highly recommended." - Library Journal Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

FOOD & MOOD

Why does your energy take a nosedive mid-afternoon? Why do you sometimes have so much trouble concentrating? Why do you crave chocolate? Why is your appetite out-of-control?

These questions and more are answered in this completely updated and revised edition of FOOD & MOOD. Drawing from thousands of the most up-to-date studies, this second edition explains in easy-to- read, interactive style why what you eat has a direct influence on how you feel, think, act, and sleep. The revolutionary Feeling Good Diet, as well as the many self-assessments, quizzes, and questionnaires, allow you to customize the step-by-step advice to take control of your eating habits, moods, and mind.

Rights Information

Publisher: Henry Holt, Hardcover (1995)
Henry Holt, Paperback 2nd edition (December 15, 1999)

Territory: World

Rights Available:

Reviews:
"In the early 1990s, when Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., a nationally recognized award-winning nutrition expert and the nutrition correspondent for Good Morning America, wrote the first edition of her groundbreaking book, Food & Mood, scientists were just beginning to understand how what we eat affects how we feel. Over the past several years, nutrition research has exploded, and this edition of Food & Mood has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest findings on the relationship between diet and mental and emotional well-being.

Food & Mood covers all the bases for eating right for a healthy body and mind and includes practical, nutritionally sound advice for putting Somer's Feel Good Diet into practice. Somer starts out by simply and eloquently elucidating the science behind the food-mood link. She explains how food affects mood; the basis of food cravings; how diet is connected to stress, PMS, and fatigue; and what foods banish the blues, boost brain power, and improve sleep naturally. Need to stop overeating and abusing food? In the second section, Somer gives compassionate, pragmatic advice for turning your eating habits around for good. The final section gives detailed, step-by-step suggestions and guidelines to help you eat right to feel great. Included are shopping tips, daily menus, information on designing a supplement program, and tantalizing recipes. (Who knew burritos, brownies, and chocolate chip cupcakes could be good for you?)" - Amazon.com

"What at first glance would appear to be yet another look at the relationships of food with emotional state is, instead, an extremely well-researched probe of what a good diet can mean to both body and mind. Somer, editor of Nutrition Report, dispels many of the myths about specific foods and diet patterns, putting in their place scientific studies showing the links between mood and diet...Readers will appreciate Somer's no-nonsense style and the absence of contrived anecdotes to make important dietary points...a valuable nutritional sourcebook." - Publishers Weekly

"An excellent source ...highly recommended." - Library Journal

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Purchase at Amazon.com