Product Description

Renowned nutrition expert Jack Challem isolates the nutritional triggers of bad moods, providing solutions that will help you stabilize your moods, gain energy, sleep better, handle stress, and be more focused. He lays out a clear–cut, four–step plan for feeding the brain the right nutrition, presenting advice on choosing the right foods and supplements as well as improving lifestyle habits to help regulate mood swings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60598 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
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.) (Publishers Weekly, January 8, 2007)

“…aims to help you understand and identify how your diet affects your moods…easy–to–follow book…all backed up by recent scientific research.” (Health & Fitness, May 2007)

From the Back Cover

The Food–Mood Solution

"Easy–to–follow . . . all backed up by recent scientific research."
— Health & Fitness magazine

"Jack Challem makes the connection between food and mood clearly, simply, and practically. He shows us how we can use food, supplements, and herbs to help relieve our distressing psychological symptoms, improve our mental performance, and enhance our well–being."
— James S. Gordon, M.D., founder and Director of the Center for Mind–Body Medicine and author of Manifesto for a New Medicine

"This book offers us the true solution to overcoming our addictions to food, letting us control what we eat and not allowing food, alcohol, or drugs control us."
— Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of The Hamptons Diet andThe Allergy and Asthma Cure

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

About 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.

Customer Reviews

A Life Saver!
This is an amazing book that has helped relieve my anxiety and help me to concentrate far more at work. It is a great alternative to taking meds and atleast this method does not have negative side effects. The process is simple really, avoid sugar, eat more protein rich food and eat good carb sources with med/low GI. The book also explains in great detail about all worthy supplements for your specific moods as well as how each neurotransmitter works in the brain. Also included are some great recipe ideas. I cannot recommend this book enough!