Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection

Nutrition Essentials For Mental Health explains in a clear and concise way how our diet can affect how we feel and act. It is extremely thorough and serves as both an advisory source and reference manual. Dr.Korn has a long and unique background in this area and she shares her experience with what has worked to help those she has treated. As a psychiatrist with forty years in the mental health field this book is the best I have read in teaching me how to use nutrition to improve patients mood and functional level. It is useful for mental health professionals and anyone who wants to feel better by learning how to eat more wisely based on their specific emotional needs. I particularly liked the Chapter " Putting It All Together: Making Recommendations For Success". Much information is provided so it takes time to discern what works best. Nevertheless the material is so comprehensive it can be used for a tailor-made prescription. I can recommend this book without reservations.

This book synthesizes a lot of nutrition information out there that is often confusing and conflicting into something that is understandable and thus much easier to explain to clients or patients. Every individual is different so there will be no one diet that will work for everyone. This book explains enough of the science without getting hyper-technical. It is honestly a fascinating read as she incorporates science, history, and culture with the specific purpose and intention of helping clients or patients to feel better, in body and in mind and to improve their daily functioning. It's as big as and is built like a textbook. I feel like I'm taking a course just by reading it and that's a good thing because there's so much good information in it. Honestly, if I was the Bill Gates or Oprah of therapy, I'd buy every mental health professional a copy. This information is foundational to our clients' well-being.

As a therapist their are some books on my book shelf that get pulled down mutiple times during the day. This is one of them. We live in an era that relies heavily on pharmacology. This book is a guide to the food mood connection that can minimize the reliance on pharmacology to manage mood disorders. I personally have made a lot of changes to my diet based on this book. I feel great. For any mental health practitioner it is worth the price and will be worth the time you take reading it. For me it is a reference book that I use often. Even if you don't use this with your clients, you will feel better if you begin to examine how you are eating and the impact on your mood.

Its a textbook, but super helpful. Changing my diet based around this information to assist with depression and insomnia. The information included is easy to digest (lol) and can help average people better understand how and why to use food as medicine.

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I read this book on my Kindle. This is a terrific book. It is very thorough in its documentation and recommendations. I was replete with useful recipes. I highly recommend this book for people that want to improve their mental health without medication.

As a therapist, this is one of my favorite books to recommend to my clients and their families. Good nutrition heals our minds and our bodies!

this book is an amazing bible for anyone but especially for mental health issues, this lady really doe know what she is talking about. she knows how to get people well and weaned off drugs which really only mess us up. anyone could read this and take away enough to design a plan to get well. love it. nutrition is complex as we are all different on a gut level, some have toxic or deficiency or blood sugar issues unknown. with this book one could sort our self out . it all takes time but there is. path and this lady has lit that path. this book needs to be in every mental hospital around the country, as learning about our illness is the only way to rid it out. this book is written in a easy to understand style and doesn't go on with a lot of technical stuff they the gal on the street couldn't understand. cant rate this ladies work high enough. LESLIE KORN you are an angel.xx