BRAINFOOD A Provocative Exploration of the Connection Between What You Eat and How You Think

Bourre, Jean-Marie, M.D. (Translated By Charles Ramble)

ISBN 10: 0316103624 / ISBN 13: 9780316103626

Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1993

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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Black line top edge, otherwise without flaw. 6.5 X 9.5" 268 pages. Dr. Jean-Marie Bourre, Director of Research at the Institut National de la Recherche Medicale in Paris. Through a blend of scientific and nutritional information, this book reveals the impact of food's nutrients, and toxins, on the way we feel and think. It also tells the story of food itself, revealing a rich history and a smorgasbord of gastronomic trivia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BRAINFOOD A Provocative Exploration of the Connection Between What You Eat and How You Think
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co, Boston
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316103624
• ISBN 13: 9780316103626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First English Language Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health and Fitness

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Synopsis

A specialist in brain research looks at the importance of a healthy diet for a healthy brain, debunking myths about diet and health, presenting nutritional information, and offering insights into the history of food.

Reviews

In attempting to establish the social, physiological, cultural and psychological grounds for understanding food and its relationship to the brain, Bourre may have tackled a subject too complex in scope to be covered sufficiently in one volume. Topics such as alcoholism, herbology, vitamin deficiencies and eating disorders are certainly of interest when discussed individually, yet when combined with more complicated interpretations of dietetics and biology, in addition to myriad quotes ranging from those of philosophers to poets, scientists, and chefs, the result is a sometimes confusing array of data and research, gastronomic trivia and psychology. Still, the criticism of "fashionable dietetics" is provocative, and there is useful nutritional information, as well as brief histories of food. Bourre, a specialist in brain research, is right to say that too little is known of the mechanics of the brain and much is misunderstood; there is certainly a lot of room for exploration in the field. Unfortunately, however, the book does not explain our most mysterious organ cohesively or conclusively.
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Bourre, research director at Paris's Institut National de la Recherche Medicale, argues that cuisine and gastronomy are vital to human nutrition. His book, whose title is somewhat misleading, surveys the basics of dietary biochemistry from protein through the various trace elements and briefly describes the brain and the senses. Despite much useful and detailed information, the author makes some unsubstantiated and contradictory statements (e.g., he claims that the best way to build muscle is to eat meat, while noting that evolving herbivores put on so much muscle as to become moribund). Such comments will certainly provoke controversy, and that alone may generate reader interest. Except where demand warrants, however, this is a questionable purchase.
- Laurie Bartolini, Lincoln Lib., Springfield, Ill.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.