Managing Your Mind and Mood Through Food Author:Judith J. Wurtman, Margaret Danbrot Revolutionary and scientifically sound news about the food/mind/mood response from a renowned M.I.T. scientist who explains how to enhance daily performance dramatically through diet. — In this breakthrough book, Dr. Judith Wurtman explains how what we eat and when we eat it affects our moods, minds, and lives. Translating her findings into pract... more »ical programs, she reveals what foods can prevent afternoon slumps; increase productivity; help us carry on with activities after work or work through the night, calm stress and anxiety; and aid sleep. At the heart of the book are her guidelines about how carbohydrates and proteins interact in the body, and how to use this knowledge to set your own food/mood clock.
In addition, Dr. Wurtman shatters many of the common myths about food, showing how to take advantage of caffeine, sugar, and carbohydrate snacks to increase productivity, and includes a test used at M.I.T which enables readers to explore their own food/mind/mood response.
This book shows you how to eat to:
Beat stress and fatigue at work
Have a faster, more focused mind
Avoid mood swings that lead to erratic, out-of-control eating
Set your own food/mood clock to perform at your peak
Boost energy for morning, afternoon, or evening activities
Stay alert through marathon meetings or long evenings
Fly through time zones and arrive feeling first-rate by using revolutionary anti-jet lag tactics...and much more