Food & Mood: The Complete Guide to Eating Well and Feeling Your Best, Second Edition - Softcover

Somer, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805062009 ISBN 13: 9780805062007

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

Food and Mood will help you balance your moods, boost your energy level, and take back your life now!

Why do you feel tired after eating a full meal? Why do you have so much trouble concentrating? Why do you crave chocolate? Can diet affect depression? Is there a natural cure for insomnia? Nutrition expert Elizabeth Somer answers all these questions and more in this completely updated and revised second edition to her nutritional guide Food and Mood.

The result of research encompassing thousands of the most up-to-date scientific studies, Somer explains how what we eat has a direct influence on how we feel, think, sleep, look, and act. She addresses specific food-related issues including health conditions, food cravings, diet struggles, stress, PMS, winter blues, energy levels, depression, memory, and sleep patterns, as well as tackling the issue of supplements and providing the real story on those you need and those you don't.

This entirely new edition covers the latest information on how to:
- naturally fight fatigue and stress
- boost brain power and improve memory with the latest supplements
- fight depression with exercise and special dietary fats called omega-3 fatty acids
- satisfy your cravings for chocolate, ice cream, potato chips, and steak without sacrificing your waistline
- sleep better naturally
- and much more!

Included is Somer's revolutionary Feeling Good Diet, a program that shows you how to take control of your eating habits to benefit mood and mental functioning now.

About this title

Review

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?) --Ellen Albertson

From the Back Cover

Why does your energy take a nosedive in mid-afternoon? Why do you sometimes have so much trouble concentrating? Why do you crave chocolate? Elizabeth Somer answers these questions and more in this completely updated and revised edition of Food & Mood. Drawing from thousands of the most up-to-date scientific studies, Somer explains in an accessible, interactive style why what you eat has a direct influence on how you feel, think, act, and sleep. Somer's revolutionary Feeling Good Diet, as well as the many self-assessments, quizzes, and questionnaires, allows you to customize her step-by-step advice to take control of your eating habits, mood, and mind.

This entirely new edition covers the latest information on how to
-- naturally fight fatigue and stress
-- boost brain power and improve memory with food and the latest supplements
-- fight depression with exercise and special dietary fats called the omega-3 fatty acids
-- satisfy your cravings for chocolate, ice cream, potato chips, and steak without sacrificing your waistline
-- prevent hostility and anger by eating the right foods
-- sleep better naturally
-- manage an out-of-control appetite
-- choose the best supplement program for you, including the fifteen nutrients essential for boosting energy and improving mood

Food & Mood will help you balance your moods, boost your energy level, and take back your life now!

Edition details

• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0805062009
• ISBN 13: 9780805062007
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448