A lively and evidence-based argument that a whole food diet is essential for good mental health.
Food has power to nourish your mind, supporting emotional wellness through both nutrients and pleasure. In this groundbreaking book, journalist Mary Beth Albright draws on cutting-edge research to explain the food/mood connection. She redefines “emotional eating” based on the science, revealing how eating triggers biological responses that affect humans’ emotional states both immediately and long-term. Albright’s accessible voice and ability to interpret complex studies from the new field of nutritional psychology, combined with straightforward suggestions for what to eat and how to eat it, make this an indispensable guide. Readers will come away knowing how certain foods help reduce the inflammation that can harm mental health, the critical relationship between the microbiome and the brain, which vitamins help restore the body during intensely emotional times, and how to develop a healthful eating pattern for life—with 30-day kickoff plan included. Eat and Flourish is the entertaining, inspiring book for today’s world.
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Mary Beth Albright is an award-winning journalist and author focusing on the science-based connection between food and mental health. Eat and Flourish is her first book, which has been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Thai. She was a columnist for the Washington Post, has written for National Geographic, and was a restaurant critic for DC Magazine for years. Her passion for food grew from her mentor Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. After 15 years working with him on health and food issues and attending Georgetown Law School, she advised on food systems and managed a White House initiative. Albright is a frequent panel moderator, including for the US State Department and the Smithsonian, and her food-judging expertise is sought after—she once ate 2, 000 foods over three days to judge the Outstanding New Product Awards. She earned a certificate from L’Academie de Cuisine and is an elected member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an esteemed group of women in the culinary professions, which counts Julia Child among its alumnae. Albright also works with food-related organizations that seek to improve the food system and food’s impact on wellness, environmental, and social issues, while fulfilling our moral imperative to feed 8 billion people on the planet. For more information, visit www.marybethalbright.com or follow her on IG @mary.beth or X @marybeth.