Calm Your Mind with Food: A Revolutionary Guide to Controlling Your Anxiety by Uma NaidooMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
There is a connection between the food you eat and how it affects your brain and your body. This book explains how anxiety may be rooted in our brain, our gut, our immune system, and our metabolism and how to fix this so our minds are calm and functioning correctly. Dr. Naidoo, a board-certified nutritional psychiatrist, provides guidelines to apply the six pillars for calming the mind, personalizing a meal plan, and improving your overall mental well-being.
This book has three parts: The Problem, The Solution, and The Protocol. This book is recommended to anyone dealing with anxiety and new to nutrition.
6 Pillars to Calm Your Mind
1. Eat whole to be whole
2. The calming kaleidoscope plate
3. Magnify micronutrients
4. Prioritize healthy fats
5. Avoid anxiety-triggering foods
6. Find consistency and balance
This book is well-organized, well-researched, and presented in a friendly, relatable tone. Dr. Naidoo explains each concept thoroughly with many patient examples. A whole chapter is dedicated to recipes, including a lavender play dough (nonedible) recipe.
Overall, the concepts are not new.
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