The Kitchen Shrink: Foods and Recipes for a Healthy Mind

by NatalieSavona (Author), NatalieSavona (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.25

  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.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  In The Kitchen Shrink , nutritionist, Natalie Savona shows how what we eat can dramatically affect our state of mind. Each chapter is carefully devised to combine comprehensive, up-to-date, clear information with practical advice. The Kitchen Shrink shows us that through better understanding of the connections between what we eat and how we feel, and through simple but highly effective modifications to our diet, we can bring about profound, beneficial, and long-lasting effects on our mind and mood. 'A beautiful book which shows how foods can be first-aid for the mind' - Daily Express .