Natural Power Foods : Healthy Foods and Recipes to Lift Your Mood and Boost Your Energy Levels

How we eat affects how we feel—and even simple modifications can help maintain energy and moods at optimum levels. Nutritionist Christine Bailey provides comprehensive, accessible information on physiology and psychology, showing that ailments such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), insomnia, and PMS all respond to shifts in our eating habits. In addition to more than 80 recipes, each with an at-a-glance nutrient profile, this fully updated guide concludes with a chapter on nutritional supplements and advice on exercise and relaxation techniques. Depression, stress and low-energy levels seem like inevitable symptoms of our hectic modern lives, often made worse by our quick-fix diet of caffeine, alcohol and sugary snacks. But it doesn't have to be that way. Respected nutritionist Christine Bailey presents extensive advice and tasty recipes to enable you to harness the natural power of food and boost your mood. Specialised chapters provide practical nutritional advice to help alleviate the symptoms of a range of conditions, from depression and difficulty sleeping to Seasonal Affective Disorder and PMS, and shows how common disorders can be overcome simply and effectively through improvements in diet. By following the advice and specially commissioned recipes of Lift Your Mood , you can embrace a healthy new lifestyle, helping you stay alert, motivated and happy for many years to come. Lift Your Mood with Power Foods In her new book, the author of "The Juice Diet "and "Nourish" lays down the law about food and mood: bad food choices sabotage our energy levels and smart choices can pick us up when we're down. The book concludes with a chapter on nutritional supplements and helpful advice on the benefits of exercise and relaxation