Potatoes Not Prozac: A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Stabililize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood, Control Your Cravings and Lost Weight, and Recognize How Foods affe by Desmaisons, Kathleen Ph.D - 1998

U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ; 252 pages with index; Textblock is tight and clean with no internal markings save for former owners first name neatly written to the top of the front-free endpaper; Boards are white with the spine in red and title in gold; Bright unfaded dust-jacket with no tears and minimal shelf and edge wear; We have placed it in a protective, removable mylar cover; . (Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D, addictive nutrition expert, reveals that emotional troubles such as mood swings or depression often can't be fought by medication. This offers instead a prescription for altering our eating habis. Millions of people are sugar-sensitive, which means they have a special body chemistry that reacts in extreme ways to sugar and refined carbohydrates like white bread and pasta. DesMaisons reveals that these comfort foods can sometimes provide just the opposite effect, triggering feelings of exhaustion, hopelessness and low self-esteem. Helping us to free ourselves from sugar dependency, she explains how food-dependendent chemicals in the brain regulate our moods - once we understand how these react to what we eat, or don't eat, we are free to control our lives. In addition to food charts, questionnaires, and accessible scientific lessons, she provides a straightforward seven-step plan. These steps are actually more liberating than any diet could be and the author asserts that as we come into balance, we can shape our own direction rather than being driven by biochemical circumstances.).