Product Description

Optimum nutrition is a revolution in healthcare. Patrick Holford's first major book, The Optimum Nutrition Bible, dealt with the effect of good nutrition for the body. Optimum Nutrition for the Mind reveals what good nutrition can do for the mind. Some 80 per cent of us suffer from 'affluent malnutrition', and struggle to cope with the demands of 21st-century life. No wonder the World Health Organization has reported that mental health problems are fast becoming the world's number-one health issue. The good news is that you can 'feed' your brain to clear your thinking, sharpen your memory and smooth out your mood swings. What you eat DOES affect your mind, and can transform how you think and feel. In Optimum Nutrition for the Mind Patrick Holford has drawn on the latest breakthroughs in medical science to show how everyone, at any age, can improve their state of mind with the right nutrition. And he shows how in cases of many serious conditions, from autism to schizophrenia, balanced nutrition can be a key factor in achieving a cure. This is the first definitive, readable and practical guide to solving mental health problems through nutrition. Read this book and find out how you can use optimum nutrition to * Increase your IQ and improve your concentration * Boost your memory and sharpen your mind - whatever your age * Improve your mood, banish mood swings and beat depression * Conquer stress and anxiety and get a great night's sleep and how optimum nutrition can * Reverse learning difficulties, dyslexia and hyperactivity * Help children with Down's syndrome and autism * Prevent and arrest dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease * Speed up recovery from schizophrenia

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83790 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
Patrick Holford is founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London. He is Britain's top nutrition expert and is the author of over 20 health books.

Customer Reviews

excellent
An excellent book showing how food affects our mood

It also explains how feelings of depression can be lifted by changing your diet and how much food affects our behaviour without our realising it. The text is also helpful to people who want to look at this subject with more dpeth than some of the glib books that are available in bookshops. I am sure I shall consult it often as there was so much useful and interesting information in it.

Highly recommended
For a long time I suffered from depression, at times very severe and incapacitating, and some 4 years ago finally and extremely reluctantly resorted to anti-depressants (SSRIs). Then someone recommended this book to me. Reading the chapter on depression revealed that my diet lacked certain nutrients important to mood, despite being basically healthy (vegetarian, wholefood, enough protein, low sugar, no junk food). I immediately implemented Holford's recommendations, and within 2 months had come off the pills and have never looked back (it's now 2 years). There were no other changes in my life at the time which could have contributed to this effect, so I am confident that it was down to nutrition. I'm not suggesting that everyone will be as fortunate as I was, but I do believe strongly that looking at one's diet is a logical first step to tackling depression, and I highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from it.

Not exactly up to expectations
I bought this book after seeing the author on a tv show, where he showed kids at a school on a special diet. After a few weeks on this diet the kids showed marked improvements in behaviour and intelligence and I wanted to try the same for my own kids. The author gave the impression that this information was 'all in the book'.

However, I've found that whilst this information may be in the book, it is far from easy to decipher. The book is structured by mental categories (depression, dementia, etc.) with information on different defficiencies and supplements that have shown different levels of success for different people. This leaves the reader to trawl through pages of detailed scientific information and to make their own assumptions and guesses as to which supplements they may wish to try. There do not appear to be any recipes or diets or even recommendations for which foods to cut out or replace.

In short the answers may be in here, but I found them far too hard to track down.