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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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Good Housekeeping Comfort Food: 100 Scrumptious Classics Made Easy by Good Housekeeping [1588168840, Format: EPUB]

  • Title: Good Housekeeping Comfort Food: 100 Scrumptious Classics Made Easy
  • Autor: Good Housekeeping
  • Print Length:
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Hearst; Spi edition (October 4, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0751FR6PF
  • ISBN-10:ISBN: 1588168840
  • ISBN-13:
  • File Format: EPUB, PDF

Brought to you by America’s most trusted authority on cooking: yesterday’s favorites updated for today! Good Housekeeping presents a kitchen-full of home-style dishes that will warm heart and soul and leave your family with a lifetime’s worth of wonderful memories. From perfect pastas to steaming soups and stews, crowd-pleasing classics to everyone’s favorites sides, and, of course, sinfully delicious cookies, pies, and puddings, this is food like Mom used to make-all triple-tested to perfection.

Comforting favorites include:
New England Clam Chowder * Macaroni and Cheese * Chicken Gumbo Pot Pie
Roasted Chicken with Winter Vegetables * Tuna Melt with Carrot-Raisin Salad * Potato Gratin with Gruyère * Sausage and Pepper Baked Ziti * Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Panini * Cocoa Brownies with Mini Chocolate Chips * Easiest-Ever Apple Pie * and more

About the Author

Good Housekeeping magazine is an American icon of consumer protection and quality assurance. Each issue reaches 24 million readers, and, with 15 editions published worldwide, it is an internationally recognized brand that sets the standard to which all other women’s service magazines aspire.

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Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice [1933392002, Format: EPUB]

Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice

  • Print Length: 374 Pages
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Publication Date: April 1, 2006
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005O1G2IE
  • ISBN-10: 1933392002
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933392004
  • File Format: EPUB

Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.

In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and passionate food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn. Each chapter includes recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors of foods tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.

Prentice decries our modern food culture: megafarms and factories, the chemically processed ghosts of real foods in our diets, and the suffering–physical, emotional, cultural, communal, and spiritual–born of a disconnect from our food sources. She laments the system that is poisoning our bodies and our communities.

But Full Moon Feast is a celebration, not a dirge. Prentice has emerged from her own early struggles with food to offer health, nourishment, and fulfillment to her readers. She recounts her relationships with local farmers alongside ancient harvest legends and methods of food preparation from indigenous cultures around the world.

Combining the radical nutrition of Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions, keen agri-political acumen, and a spiritual sensibility that draws from indigenous as well as Western traditions, Full Moon Feast is a call to reconnect to our food, our land, and each other.