Description |
xiii, 321 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Diet and good mental health -- 1. Two modern challenges : diet and mental health -- 2. Diet and mental health in adults -- 3. Diet and mental health in children and adolescents -- 4. Diet at the start of life -- 5. Correlation doesn't equal causation : a brief but important note about science -- 6. Autism, ADHD and psychotic illnesses -- 7. Ageing well -- 8. The immune system, brain plasticity, epigenetics and gut microbiota in mental health -- 9. If I improve my diet, will my mental health improve? -- 10. How can we improve things? -- 11. Myths and hits -- 12. The best diet for mental and brain health -- pt. 2. Recipes for good mental health -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix : the ModiMed diet -- Sources -- Index |
Summary |
You feel how you eat. We accept that the quality of our diet affects the health of our heart and liver. So why wouldn't diet good or bad affect the health of our brain? This is the question that Australian scientist Felice Jacka set out to answer. Having suffered depression and anxiety as a young woman, she wanted to understand the role diet plays in our overall mental and brain health. What she found through her own research and that of other eminent scientists worldwide will revolutionise the way we think about what we eat and how we care for our brains |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Mental health -- Nutritional aspects
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Brain -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects
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Brain -- Diseases -- Prevention
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Mood (Psychology) -- Nutritional aspects
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Nutrition -- Psychological aspects
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Brain -- Care and hygiene
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Diet therapy
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Brain
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Depression
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Nutritional Status
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Genre/Form |
Cookbooks.
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Cookbooks.
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ISBN |
1760556513 (paperback) |
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9781760556518 (paperback) |
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