Would you like to feel better? Have you ever wondered how real, lasting change happens? Food, Mood, and More reveals how nutrition can be a powerful tool in the quest for improved emotional health. What we eat is one of the most important decisions we make each day. The author brings a unique perspective as a licensed professional counselor, with a degree in nutrition and certification with the Mental Health Integrative Medical Institute. She also shares her tool kit of effective strategies therapists teach to improve emotional health. In this book you will learn: The connection between stimulants, anxiety and sleep - including effective strategies for calming your mind Key nutrients to support emotional health 7 practical steps to improve mood How you can tune up your brain and neurotransmitters How to identify mood boosters and mood busters How to stock your kitchen with healthy feel-good food How to make lasting, effective changes Food, Mood, and More also includes a brief food assessment to help you determine where to begin on your journey to improved emotional health, a sample three-day menu plan, and recipes to utilize mood boosters.

Unlock the secrets of how food affects your mind and start your journey to better brain and emotional health today. Discover the powerful connection between your diet and your mental and emotional health in "How Food Affects Your Mind: The Science Behind Eating and Emotions." This enlightening book delves into the fascinating world of nutrition and its profound impact on your brain and emotions. Explore how the foods you eat can influence your mood, boost your mental clarity, and enhance your emotional well-being. With easy-to-understand explanations, this book breaks down complex scientific concepts, revealing how essential nutrients, the gut-brain axis, and neurotransmitters play a crucial role in your mental health. Inside this wonderful book, you'll find: In-Depth Analysis: Learn about the brain-gut connection and how gut health impacts your emotions. Essential Nutrients: Discover which vitamins and minerals are key to maintaining mental balance. Mood-Boosting Foods: Identify foods that help combat anxiety, stress, and depression. Healthy Alternatives: Replace harmful processed foods and sugar with nutritious, brain-boosting options. Practical Advice: Get actionable tips for creating a personalized diet that supports your mental well-being. Real-Life Case Studies: Read inspiring stories of individuals who transformed their mental and emotional health through diet changes. Easy-To-Follow Recipes: Enjoy simple, delicious recipes designed to enhance your mood and cognitive function. Perfect for anyone interested in mental and emotional health, nutrition, or simply improving their overall well-being, "How Food Affects Your Mind" offers life-changing insights and practical tools to help you make informed dietary choices. Whether you're looking to manage stress, boost your mood, or improve your cognitive performance, this book is your guide to understanding and harnessing the power of food for a healthier mind and happier life. Get your Copy today!

'This is a fascinating book, by a leading researcher, covering one of the most exciting areas of modern nutritional research - how what we eat impacts our gut and brain. The combination of personal stories and cutting edge science is a real winner.' Michael Mosley You feel how you eat. We accept that the quality of our diet affects the health of our heart and liver. So why wouldn't diet - good or bad - affect the health of our brain? This is the question that Australian scientist Felice Jacka set out to answer. Having suffered depression and anxiety as a young woman, she wanted to understand the role diet plays in our overall mental and brain health. What she found through her own research and that of other eminent scientists worldwide will revolutionise the way we think about what we eat and how we care for our brains. * Obesity and depression are two major causes of disease and disability across the globe, and each influences the other. *Food does affect mood: highly processed foods increase depression risk, while a balanced, whole-food diet can prevent depression and improve mood. *A healthy diet improves gut health, and in turn health microbiota (gut bacteria) promote brain health and keep our weight in check. *A healthy diet improves brain performance at all ages, from school-age kids to their work-stressed parents. *The Mediterranean diet is linked to lower rates of Alzheimer's disease and general cognitive decline in older people. Professor Jacka, who leads the field of Nutritional Psychiatry research globally, provides not just the most recent scientific evidence but also a range of simple, practical solutions for improving the way we eat on a daily basis, including meal plans and a range of delicious recipes. This is not a diet book. This is a guide to the good habits that will protect your most precious organ, improve your quality of life and optimise mental and brain health across your lifespan. PRAISE FOR BRAIN CHANGER 'Jacka is leading the way in providing evidence-based approaches that are rooted in cutting-edge science to transform how we think about mental health.' Professor John Cryan

Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the after-effects of trauma? That salami can cause depression, or that boosting Vitamin D intake can help treat anxiety? When it comes to diet, most people's concerns involve weight loss, fitness, cardiac health, and longevity. But what we eat affects more than our bodies; it also affects our brains. And recent studies have shown that diet can have a profound impact on mental health conditions ranging from ADHD to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, OCD, dementia and beyond. Dr. Uma Naidoo is a board-certified psychiatrist, nutrition specialist, and professionally trained chef. In The Food-Mood Connection, she draws on cutting-edge research to explain the many ways in which food contributes to our mental health, and shows how a sound diet can help treat and prevent a wide range of psychological and cognitive health issues. Packed with fascinating science, actionable nutritional recommendations, and delicious, brain-healthy recipes, The Food-Mood Connection is the go-to guide to optimizing your mental health with food.

An examination of how food can affect moods, memory and thought patterns, which evaluates the scientific evidence on the effects of certain foodstuffs, and offers advice on how to adjust diets in order to achieve peak psychological fitness.

We studied the powerful connections between Food, Mood, and Money, in other words, between Diet, Boldness, and Wealth. We wrote this book to help you use the astonishing cause-and-effect relationships we discovered: The first relationship is how Food-leads-to-Mood, not in the sense of dinners by candlelight but on the physical level of metabolism and brain chemistry. The second relationship is how Mood-leads-to-Money, the stunning way how our mood levels determine our income. In a nutshell "What You Eat is How You Feel. How You Feel is What You Get."Let's start with this second relationship, how Mood-leads-to-Money:Isn't it hard to admit to ourselves, let alone telling anyone else, that we sometimes feel timid, indecisive, anxious or depressed? That we're not as dynamic and optimistic as we wish we were? Dark mood levels are a difficult to talk about. It's like there's a taboo about feeling down, about negative inner states. It seems to be easier to confess tax evasion, bed wetting or nail biting, than to admit to timidity or depression. Forget about sympathy, forget about understanding. We've heard people telling someone dealing with a persistently dark mood level, "...look, it isn't like it's gonna kill you or something!" Let's put aside the blackest suicidal moods for the moment; Accepting and living with an even slightly depressed mood level will -(1) drastically reduce your income(2) limit the size of your house or apartment(3) reduce the number of your friends(4) deprive you of the everyday joy in life that people with solid mood levels take for grantedWe are not guessing here. The science has been done, the facts are in. A bold approach to life pays off in multiple ways. People who manage to maintain a bold, optimistic, outgoing personality style not only earn significantly higher incomes but also enjoy fuller lives with more and richer relationships. Now let's look at the first relationship of how Food-leads-to-Mood, how what you eat determines your inner weather. The scientific term for our approach is The Nutritional Method of Mood Elevation. It comes with impeccable scientific credentials and proposes that if you are not living to the fullest, a simple chemical imbalance may be largely responsible for your low mood, and if your brain's balance of these biochemicals is restored, your mood, wherever it is now, will lift.You may wonder how come these amazing facts aren't more widely publicized? Wouldn't they be tremendously helpful to anyone who has to reach out to others daily - buying, selling, managing, negotiating, presenting, persuading, teaching, training? Yes they would, and that's why we wrote this book.Food, Mood, Money - at a GlanceChapter 1 - Getting Up When You're Down Chapter 2 - Stories from the Mood Front Chapter 3 - Putting a Name to Your MoodChapter 4 - The Painful Link from Mood to IncomeChapter 5 - Just How Does Mood Determine Income?Chapter 6 - It's NOT All In Your HeadChapter 7 - The Powerful Link from Food to MoodChapter 8 - Prozac et cetera: Shortcut or Dead End?Chapter 9 - Achieving Boldness NaturallyChapter 10 - Support Systems for BoldnessChapter 11 - Shopping List and Intake RecommendationsChapter 12 - Mood Elevation in Daily UseChapter 13 - Cautions to the Newly BoldChapter 14 - Common Medications That May Be Getting You DownChapter 15 - Additional Information