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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Health Publications; New edition edition (20 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1591201055
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591201052
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, 24 April 2003
By Charles Anderson (mddx United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Optimum Nutrition for the Mind (Hardcover)
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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, 18 Feb 2006
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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.
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92 of 102 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly up to expectations, 25 Feb 2003
This review is from: Optimum Nutrition for the Mind (Hardcover)
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.

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