The Food-Mood Connection: Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing

You are what you eat applies to more than physical fitness. "The Food-Mood Connection: Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing" is a book discussing the possibility that many mental disorders are strongly affected by what the afflicted eat in their day to day lives. Explaining that the nutrition and chemicals brought into the body cause many different reactions and changes throughout, it's a theory based in science and applicable to one's everyday life. "The Food-Mood Connection" is something to consider when trying to increase one's overall mental and physical health.

The writer's passion for his communication of empirical research about the importance of foods affect on health became apparent to me during a recent fundraiser for a local public television station in my state. I have often thought that the health issues that I face are a matter of diet. This book not only describes symptoms of ailments but suggests food and vitamin or mineral supplementation regimes to address those ailments. In addition I found the bibliographic information comprehensive. This is an excellent reference text that empowers the user. I am extremely thankful to have become aware of this text.

In this book you can see that the solution for treating depression is not in a prescription. Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Effexor, Remeron, etc are all pills that any doctor will give you without considering what might be causing the depression and treating it. These pills have many side effects and I know because I've taken all of them, and many times they don't even work. I'm going to try and find a doctor here that practices what this book is all about. They say that you might get depression symptoms from some food, from things in the environment, deficiency of minerals, etc. That is what needs to be found out and treated and when it is, your depression will go away. The book makes a LOT of sense. PLEASE READ IT, you won't be sorry.

Too often, health problems are treated with magic pills, and this is especially true of mental health problems. Now here is a book that pays proper attention to both the causes of much mental illness and helpful things people can do in place of or in addition to drugs to improve their mood and mental health. The authors are a nutritionist, Gary Null, and a respected writer, Louise Bernikow. I was really surprised by the some of the information here-and troubled that I hadn't heard about it already. For example, it turns out the drugs that are used to treat kids diagnosed with ADHD (attention-deficit) disorders are associated with risk of violent or suicidal behavoir, and that the diagnosis itself is very blurry. So kids are being treated with dangerous drugs for a condition they often don't even have! And there are alternatives, nontoxic nutritional approaches, that usually aren't even considered. As usual, a big part of the problem is that doctors aren't adequately informed about exciting nutritional approaches, and doctors can only employ treatments they know how to prescribe, so it's a bit of a catch 22-with patients the worse off. But this book can help. I hope people read it, and, especially, that doctors and other mental health practitioners read it.

I read this book in one day. It can be used as an encyclopedia of nutrition as well as a one read. This and other books from Gary Null have changed my life forever. Thanks again.Michael