The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again

by Jack Challem, Melvyn R. Werbach MD (Foreword)

Renowned nutrition expert Jack Challem isolates the nutritional triggers of bad moods, providing solutions that will help you stabilize your moods, gain energy, sleep better, handle stress, and be more focused. He lays out a clear-cut, four-step plan for feeding the brain the right nutrition, presenting advice on choosing the right foods and supplements as well as improving lifestyle habits to help regulate mood swings.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Food, Mental Health, Self Help, Nutrition, Diets

288 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Niena Aniesza]

Books on healthy lifestyles often focus solely on physical health. However, this author explores the connection between nutrition and mood, emphasizing the mind-body link and how daily food choices can impact our mood.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a great read! i liked it because it was an easy yet effective read. It did a great job of breaking down the information in a very understandable and approachable way. This is good especially for people who do not have a great knowledge about nutrition. It featured a lot of great recipes and it broke down what foods to eat to improve your mood. This is innovative for the time period because a lot of people are looking at veering away from the chemicals and prescriptions in order to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle, this book is a great recourse for that because it tells you what foods you can eat to improve your mood or help certain disorders. This book was a huge eye opener and changed the way that i think about food and what I decide to eat, and when i do eat the "wrong foods" i can tell that my mood and energy levels are low. If you want to be truly healthy and happy I would absolutely recommend this book. I found it interesting that there are certain foods that you can eat to help depression and OCD and many more disorders, i was not aware of how food could have that much of an affect on your mood, reading it opened a lot of doors to a deeper thinking on what foods i am eating and how they are affecting my life. This is not something I would normally think about and now I do. In conclusion, Being a college student with minor anxieties, stress and normal levels of ups and downs this book was highly effective! anybody looking at improving their diet mood and lifestyle should give this book a try, im not saying ti will bring instant results, but it will make you realize what certain foods can do for your mood and when you experience happiness naturally its one of the best feelings in the world and is a lot more affordable than buying prescriptions or other medications that people might use to treat things like depression and anxiety.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

*The Natural Rx Approach*
Are you tired of medical solutions that are anything but? Then, you're likely to benefit from _The Food-Mood Solution_ natural approach.

Based on a four-pronged strategy of taking supplements, eating mood-enhancing foods, upping physical activity level, and changing life habits, the approach outlines a holistic solution for improving well-being. Even if you just incorporate some of the book's key suggestions--such as taking a high potency vitamin B complex, increasing protein/healthy fat/non-starchy fruit and vegetable intake while decreasing processed/highly sugared foods, exercising in ways that make you happy, and creating and maintaining healthy boundaries in your life--you're likely to notice huge mood improvements.

_The Food-Mood Solution offers both general suggestions for achieving optimal psychological health, as well as specific suggestions for individual mood issues--including irritability, aggression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, overeating, pre-diabetes, sleeping problems, and drug abuse. Packed with information, and the tools to effectively incorporate this information, _The Food-Mood Solution_ truly lives up to its name.

[Sabrina · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first this book seemed really great and I think looking into using supplements and diet to balance neurotransmitters is fantastic, I'm all on board with that. I also like how he explains what things are or are not. What I didn't like was the repetition of supplement information in all of the last several chapters and he seems really into deli meats (as he recommends it as an example of a quick protein snack, many times). Other than that I would say the book is worth giving time to and talking to you healthcare provider or seeing someone to help use more natural ways of dealing with moods, depression, anxiety, etc. Especially if that is something that appeals to you.

[June Milner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed the basic info.

[travelmel · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

I read this book cover to cover which is rare for me and these types of books. The book relates specific diseases and disorders to what types of supplements and herbs to take to help them. It is very specific and even if you don't buy into all the herbal remedies it reads as well researched and interesting on it's own.

The cook book section is very basic and is really close to the way I cook for my family. Simple, straight forward cooking is shared here. Almost like "healthy eating for the cook with no experience."

[Stephanie Levy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't read the whole book but did read the chapters that were interesting to me. I think nutrition is so important and plays a huge role in how we feel. I do think it is overstated in this book, as I do not think a perfect diet would cure mental illness - but it could help someone manage their overall health and symptoms better.

[Maureen13 · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an easy read and it gets back to basics that you should know about your health. It has some okay recipes in it. It has information that I feel is nail on the head true and by reading this book you could save a lot of time than otherwise looking it up in other more complicated sources.

[Jen (bookscoffeedogs) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some was really repetitive, once I was into each category of areas that people might be having issues with. I did think it was helpful and informative, more on the side of herbs/vitamins that help with mood more than food. I know what I ain't supposed to eat...I just like that stuff!

[Jeanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

You are what you eat.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a quick and interesting read, but I did find some of the author's explanations of what bodies need (nutritionally) and how bodies work/metabolize food to be questionable or flimsy.

[Jessietaylortanner · Rating 2 out of 5]

ehh... redundant, overly-simplified but fairly interesting. I'd probably skip it.

[Gada · Rating 5 out of 5]

I translated this book!

[Connie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book on food & moods!

[Pam]

read parts of it. . . some of it seems useful, some not so sure . . .

[Alexa · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book uses to many scientific terms for my tast and is hard to read. I was missing more practical tips on how one can change the mood with foods.I wouldn´t buy it again.

[TheWhistler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Common sense for the body and mind. Well written and understandable. Worth putting into practice whether you have a physical or mental problem, or no problem at all.