Product Description

In this second, expanded edition of the best-selling The Brain Diet, Dr. Alan C. Logan incorporates the latest research on the connection between nutrition, mental health, and intelligence.

Most people today know that good nutrition and good health are related and that poor nutrition frequently leads to cardiovascular disease and cancer. Unfortunately, few people realize that it also is an underlying factor in other medical conditions, such as depression, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, migraine headaches, ADHD, and much more. This is startling when one realizes that researchers have found that today more than 50 percent of the vegetables in most people's diets consists of the trimmings on a hamburger and a side of fries.

The Brain Diet explains the connection between diet and mental health, as well as its importance for realizing the full potential of our intelligence. It shows how poor nutrition hinders the development of our children's intelligence and how it adversely affects mental health and success.

Despite being just 2 percent of total adult weight, the human brain demands an enormous amount of energy. An ample flow of blood is required for us to think, to reason, to create art and music, to develop technology, and to perform complex work. As The Brain Diet explains the science behind how our brains function, it also provides suggestions for a healthy diet.

Included are the basics of a brain-healthy diet, brain-healthy recipes, helpful charts, and food supplements that enhance our mental function (and how those supplements work). This revolutionary new way of looking at mental health and intelligence gives new meaning to the adage "You are what you eat."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65129 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Released on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781581826005
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

About the Author
Alan C. Logan is a member of the Harvard Medical School's Mind-Body Medical Institute. A magna cum laude graduate from the State University of New York, he was the valedictorian of his graduating class at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. The nutrition editor of the International Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, his articles have been published in Nutrition, Arthritis and Rheumatology, American Journal of Hypertension, Medical Hypotheses, Hospital Physician, and Medical Clinics of North America. He lives in Westchester County, New York.

Customer Reviews

If you suffer from depression or mental health issues, read this book
This book pulls together a huge amount of medical research regarding diet and mental health. The author does an excellent job of using words that a non-physician can understand without sacrificing content. This is NOT a "FAD DIET" sort of book, nor is it quackery. It is the seminal work on how diet translates into mental health, with copious quantities of references and citations.

I can personally vouch for the accuracy of the information on Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids. My child has had anxiety attacks ever since she stopped eating baby food. After three years we figured out that the attacks were related to eating products the day before with oils like cottonseed and safflower. But we did not know why she reacted this way, nor did our pediatricians. So all we could do was try to avoid the problem oils, which are in many, many, many foods. Monitoring her diet was a full time job, and school made it very difficult. People thought that we were crazy and ignored our pleas about not to feed her items with those oils. Then when she had an attack 24 hours later, they thought she needed counseling.

After reading this book, we understood the likely reason for her problem, as well as a possible solution. We put her on a daily Omega-3 supplement to balance her Omega 6 & Omega 3 chemistry, and her anxiety attacks are GONE. She can now eat what everyone else eats. Her demeanor is no longer high-strung and she handles stress much better. Buying this book was the best money we ever spent, and we are giving copies to everyone we know. If you know someone who suffers from mental health problems, or a mental health professional, teacher, or pediatrician, do them a favor and get them a copy of this book.

What you eat affects how you think
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (7/06)

"The Brain Diet" presents information on what role our diet plays in affecting our intelligence and mental health. We can maximize the quality of our life by eating healthy and making sure that we take in a healthy quantity of nutrients that help to support our cognitive system. In doing so, we will see an improvement in the quality of our life in areas such as thinking, reasoning, creating, being artistic and learning. A healthy brain diet can help children by increasing their intelligence and decreasing their risks of ADHD.

This book covers areas in which our health is affected in regards to our brain and how we think. A lot of what is discussed we already know affects other aspects of our health, such as oxidation and inflammation leading to cancer or heart disease. In this book, we learn about how it also negatively affects our mental processes. Many of the supplements and the diet recommended also will help us with other aspects of our health. These recommendations are not something extra that you have to do just for your brain, it is important that you follow them for all aspects of your health. The supplements recommended are mainly antioxidants and healthy fats. This is also good for other areas of our health.

I found this book to be well organized and easy to understand. The information presented came with explanations that explained why it is important to make the changes that we might need to make. A parent will find this information helpful in improving the quality of their children's ability to learn. As a middle aged person, I found the information to be very helpful with slowing the decline of my thought processes. There is also a section with recommendations for a variety of health conditions such as fibromyalgia and migraine headaches. People with an interest in their health and the health of their children will really enjoy this book. Plus the recipes presented in for the nutritional plan look really delicious!

Good information but...
The positives of this book have been well documented in other reviews. It is easy-to-read and provides useful and fascinating information regarding the relationship between diet and brain health. My two objections are: (1) There is no index. With a book with this content and information, I find this a big inconvenience. (2) The book is not footnoted. References are given using only journal year and year of publication, but article titles and authors are not provided.