The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again

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Do you often feel irritable, anxious, depressed, disconnected, or moody for no apparent reason? These problems might well have something to do with what you eat, and The Food-Mood Solution shows you what you can do about it. Jack Challem lays out an easy-to-follow four-step plan for feeding your brain the right nutrition, including cutting-edge advice on choosing the foods and supplements that are right for you as well as tips on improving your lifestyle and habits. This all-natural program will help you to: Reduce the frequency and intensity of bad moods, Be less irritable and impatient, Have more energy and sleep better, Increase your concentration and stress-proof your life, Reduce the risk of illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease, Decrease your susceptibility to panic attacks, aggressiveness, obsessive-compulsive behavior, depression, and other mood concerns.

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Best known as the "Nutrition Reporter" for consumer health publications (Alternative Medicine; Body & Soul; etc.), Challem (The Inflammation Syndrome) describes a familiar scenario: rising levels of anger, impatience, frustration, fatigue and anxiety due to minor daily irritations. Citing studies of increased violence traced to mood disorders, Challem contends that basic but highly specific diet and lifestyle modifications can lower stress levels and radically improve behavior and health. While the effects of poor nutrition on health take years to manifest, he says, such effects on mood are readily apparent, and he urges readers to notice how certain foods and beverages lead to headaches, fatigue, poor sleep, depression, compulsive behavior, panic attacks, bipolar disorder and other increasingly common conditions. His plan targets neuronutrients (vitamins and minerals needed to make critical brain chemicals) and nutrisocial factors (family, workload, environment, advertising, etc.) to boost mood. After taking a few quizzes, readers will be guided through a four-part program: supplements, diet, exercise and lifestyle. While the information is not entirely new, Challem does solidly address the hardest part of his equation-and that's the lifestyle change itself. (Mar.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

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It is obvious that what we eat may affect our moods and mental functioning—anyone who gets cranky when hungry or sleepy after a big meal has experienced this connection firsthand. However, specific recommendations, such as using B vitamins to treat depression or omega-3 fish oils to treat adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are more questionable. This book, for which health reporter Challem has drawn on 30 years of nutrition research, is an uncomfortable combination of truisms and general advice (e.g., modern life is stressful, physical activity can improve your mood) that often recommends using nutritional supplements to treat specific disorders. Although the general advice may be useful, it is available elsewhere; the specific advice may be dangerous if it replaces consultation with a medical or psychiatric professional. Nonetheless, some people want this kind of information, so the volume may be relevant to public libraries collecting popular health books of uncertain scientific credibility.
—Sarah Boslaugh

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471756101
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/9/2007
Edition number: 1
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 717,351
Product dimensions: 0.69 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 9.21 (d)

Meet the Author

Jack Challem, known as the Nutrition Reporter, publishes a health newsletter by the same name; he is the lead author of the highly successful Syndrome X and author of Stop Prediabetes Now, The Inflammation Syndrome, and Feed Your Genes Right. For more information, visit the author's Web site at www.foodmoodsolution.com.

Foreword   Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D.     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
The Food-Mood Connection
How Food Affects Your Mood     11
How Life's Stresses Do a Number on Your Moods     27
Neuronutrients, Moods, and Your Mind     39
How to Improve Your Moods
The First Step: Take Your Supplements     59
The Second Step: Eat Mood-Enhancing Foods     87
The Third Step: Be More Active     133
The Fourth Step: Begin Changing Your Life Habits     139
Improving Your Specific Mood and Behavior Concerns
Dealing with Irritability, Anger, Aggressiveness, and Violent Behavior     167
Reducing Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior     183
Reducing Distractible and Impulsive ADHD-like Behavior     203
The Overweight-Prediabetes Connection to Mood Swings     213
Dealing with Down Days, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder     221
Dealing with Alcohol and Drug Abuse     237
Afterword     247
Appendix     250
Selected References     257
Index     265

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Anonymous

Posted April 29, 2007

Well done!

Jack Challem has done an excellent job by writing a clear, concise and informative book on how to improve our moods by eating better. Our moods affect our happiness. Improving them by eating better just makes good sense. The book has great chapters such as: 'How Food Affects Your Mood', 'How Life's Stresses Do a Number on Your Moods' and 'Reducing Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior'. Great job!

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