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Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings, Second Edition by Professor Gary L. Wenk [0199393273, Format: PDF]

  • Title: Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings, Second Edition
  • Autor: Professor Gary L. Wenk
  • Print Length: 248 pages
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Oxford University Press; 2 edition (December 1, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00PAXBANS
  • ISBN-10: 0199393273
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199393275
  • File Format: PDF

In Your Brain on Food, Dr. Gary Wenk expands his discussion of the effects of specific foods on the brain in a completely updated second edition. From investigations into the benefits and risks of supplements, to the action of gluten in the brain and marijuana’s potential for pain relief, Dr. Wenk draws on the latest science to answer a range of fascinating questions such as:
-Is your aluminum cookware hurting you?
-Can tryptophan supplements improve your mood?
-How do fruits and vegetables protect us from aging?
-Why does eating chocolate make you feel so angry?
-Does our brain want us to be obese?

Never forget–everything we consume can affect how we think, feel, and act.

NEW TO THIS EDITION
-Updated second edition greatly expands discussions on the effects of specific foods on the brain
-Clarifies the role of biorhythms in how food affects the brain and behavior
-Investigates why our brain makes us crave fat, salt, and sugar

Review

“The substance of the book, from start to finish, is notable especially for the instructively informative nature of the discourse presented expertly by Wenk, relating, substantively, to the brain, drugs, and foods. [O]verall, the book as composed, substantively and stylistically, is certainly tailored well to fit a universal reading audience. The text’s body is adorned, intellectually, with some didactically very well designed ‘Figures’. Wenk’s intellectually impressive contribution to this burgeoning field, as embodied in this book, should be quite edifying to lay readers, and professionally very rewarding, as well, to medical scientists and clinicians.” –Leo Uzych, Metapsychology Online Reviews Praise for the First Edition: “An absolutely fascinating read (or book) peppered with gems of surprising information on how certain foods, plants, nicotine and drugs (legal and illegal) alter the very essence of your brain cells’ functioning and thus your behavior and mood. Don’t deprive yourself of the pleasure of reading it.” –Jean Carper, author of “Your Miracle Brain” and “100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss”Praise for the First Edition: “Your Brain on Food provides ample and important food for thought in a delightfully written reader-friendly style. Kernels of history sprinkled throughout the book provide both interest and insight into how our appetites influence our brains and, and thus, our thoughts and actions. Gary Wenk has provided a compelling and much-needed antidote to commonly available misinformation about nutrients and brain function. Readers will be richly informed–as well as entertained.” –James L. McGaugh, Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, IrvinePraise for the First Edition: “All of us are impacted by a bewildering array of psychoactive drugs and foods, some being agents of abuse and others being of importance in treating disease. Gary Wenk, a nationally eminent neuroscientist, provides a gripping account of the neurotransmitters that enable neurons in the brain to talk to each other and shows how drugs as well as substances derived from foods exert their psychoactive influences. Wenk has a gift for making complex concepts crystal clear and relating seemingly arcane science in a fascinating, lucid fashion–as gripping as a detective story. This is an invaluable book for anyone who is curious about the brain and its functions.” –Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins UniversityPraise for the First Edition: “Intriguing” –Scientific American MIND

About the Author

Gary L. Wenk, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at the Ohio State University.

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Target 100: The World’s Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps by Jennifer Hudson [1944648666, Format: EPUB]

  • Title: Target 100: The World’s Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps
  • Autor: Jennifer Hudson
  • Print Length: 280 pages
  • Publisher (Publication Date): BenBella Books (December 19, 2017)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B01MUGWNNO
  • ISBN-10: 1944648666,
  • ISBN-13: 978-1944648664,
  • File Format: EPUB

“When I was losing weight, Liz was more than my coach; she was my rock, and I couldn’t have done it without her. She just got it, because she’d been through it herself (and helped about a million other people through it, too). Target 100 is Liz in book form—smart, supportive, and full of practical, simple solutions. Liz changed my life and my whole concept of dieting—and now can change, yours too.”

—Jessica Simpson

When did weight loss get so complicated?

Today, it feels like there are a million different apps, tools, workouts, and eating plans designed to help you lose weight. Some promise success via drastic, unlivable restrictions, others are so complex they turn losing weight into a second job.

In Target 100, celebrity weight-loss coach Liz Josefsberg shows you don’t have to be a slave to your weight-loss program. You don’t have to count every gram of every nutrient and every calorie you eat at every meal. Believe it or not, weight loss can be simple.

It can even be . . . fun.

A 15-year veteran of the weight-loss industry and who lost—and kept off—65 pounds herself, Liz has accrued a high-profile clientele. She helped Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson lose weight and transform her life and coached Jessica Simpson to shed over 50 pounds of baby weight (twice!). But along with the likes of Charles Barkley and Katie Couric, Josefsberg has also coached thousands of others, everyone from stay-at-home moms to office jockeys. Along the way, she’s learned what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to lasting weight loss, and she’s ready to share her secrets with the rest of us.

Target 100 streamlines the weight-loss process into six easy-to-follow guidelines and shows you how to adjust them to fit your lifestyle, personalizing the program so that it works for you. Josefsberg offers tips, worksheets, and powerful insights to help you fine-tune a range of weight-related behaviors, from battling stress to getting more sleep, setting the stage for permanent, long-term weight loss.

Instead of counting calories, you’ll learn how simple changes come together to jumpstart your health and wellbeing, such as:

  • Drinking 100 ounces of water a day
  • Exercising for 100 minutes a week
  • Adding 100 minutes of Sleep a week
  • De-Stressing for 100 minutes a week
  • And more!

Warm and no-nonsense, encouraging and informative, Target 100 is a holistic and revolutionary wellness book with a simple message: You don’t need to be perfect to lose weight, or transform yourself into someone you’re not. You can lose weight for good, with the world’s simplest weight loss program.