Description
Price: $39.00
(as of May 04,2023 07:37:47 UTC – Details)
From the Publisher
About the Author
Lisa E. Goehler, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and expert in the science and treatment of psychological stress, chronic inflammation, and gut-related disorders. Her work explains how healthful diet and anti-inflammatory lifestyle habits can not only reduce risk of chronic metabolic disorders and cancer, but also improve mood, pain, sleep, and cognition.
She has received numerous grants, authored over fifty publications, and contributed to peer review for scientific journals and funding agencies, including the National Institute for Health. After nearly forty years in scientific research and teaching in academic settings, she is now focusing on educational outreach, her garden, and her violin.
About this Book
To change how we feel by changing how we eat, it helps to understand what food means and how it affects the brain and body. In this book, we will weave together the threads of stress, inflammation, gut health, and food to present an integrated in-depth picture of how choices that we make about food, and other aspects of lifestyle, affect our minds and bodies. The overall objective is to provide readers with enough evidence-based information to enable them to make and carry out informed choices about what they eat.
The goal of the text is to enable you to:
Distinguish between health-enhancing and unhealthy foods.Identify how stress encourages unhealthy food consumption and how to modify responses to stress.Describe the links between food, psychological well-being, and the gut-brain axis.Explain the importance of food choices in preventing and managing mood disorders and chronic medical conditions.Apply practical knowledge to optimize your diet and gut health, reduce stress and inflammation, and experience better well-being.
Chapters 1-5: The Stress ConnectionDescribe how stress can undermine conscientious eatingLearn how to reinterpret stressors as challengesSummarize how emotions can affect impulse controlIdentify pathways to manage emotional eatingDiscuss the body’s language of eating and stress-related symptomsChapters 6- 9: The Inflammation ConnectionDiscuss the interactions between shame, self-blame, inflammation, and weight gainDistinguish between healthy and harmful forms of inflammationState how inflammation can alter the way we think, feel, and eatDiscuss how lifestyle can reduce age-related inflammationChapters 10-13: What is in Our Food: Sugar, Fats, and AntioxidantsList types of antioxidants and their common sourcesExplain how antioxidants can protect against oxidative stressDistinguish between harmful and healthful fatsIdentify sugars and white foods that increase inflammation and cravingChapters 14-18: The Gut-Brain ConnectionList several ways stress, inflammation, and the Western Diet can affect brain healthExplain what is meant by the gut-barrier connectionList ways that toxins, microbes, and stress can undermine gut healthDiscuss ways that probiotics can improve microbial balanceDistinguish between harmful and healthful foods to improve the gut-brain connectionChapters 19-21: Changing How We Feel and Think by Changing What We EatName several psychological effects of inflammationDescribe how sleep affects the immune system and eating habitsDiscuss practical guidelines for promoting gut-brain healthSummarize key findings regarding how what we eat alters how we feelChapter 22: includes a neuroscience-informed set of diet practices and recipes.
Publisher : Institute for Disease Management (November 22, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 344 pages
ISBN-10 : 0983246572
ISBN-13 : 978-0983246572
Item Weight : 1.94 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.78 x 11 inches
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.