The Good Mood Kitchen: Simple Recipes and Nutrition Tips for Emotional Balance

by Leslie Korn PhD

Overview

The go-to guide to cooking and eating for better mental health.

Revolutionize your personal cooking and eating habits for optimal energy, health, and emotional well-being. This book of mood-savvy tips, tools, and delicious recipes guides you step by step through all the essentials. It features dozens of easy-to-understand graphics, lists, and charts to help prioritize choices for maximum benefit.

Learn how to: Assess your unique digestive style and nutritional needs and develop the diet that’s right for you. Substitute problem foods, ingredients, and habits with healthy, delectable alternatives. Navigate gluten sensitivity and other allergies. Use smarter, healthier food preparation options for busy schedules. Identify common nutritional complications behind depression, anxiety, and other mood challenges. Engage family and friends in nutritional change. And much more.

This is the essential dietary road map for anyone interested in improved mental well-being. Explore tasty, life-changing ways to eat healthier—and happier!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393712230
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Leslie Korn, PhD, is a clinician specializing in mental health nutrition and integrative medicine. A core faculty member of Capella University’s Mental Health Counseling Program, she served as a Fulbright scholar on traditional medicine, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a National
Institutes of Health-funded research scientist in mind/body medicine. In 1975, she founded the Center for Traditional Medicine, a public health clinic in rural indigenous Mexico that she directed for over 25 years. Author of six books, she teaches and consults internationally for mental health professionals and tribal communities.

Editorial Reviews

10/23/2017
Underscoring the connection between diet and mental health, Korn, a clinical traumatologist specializing in mental health nutrition and integrative medicine, argues that optimal nutrition prevents and treats mental illness. She asserts that mental illness is often accompanied by a poor diet and digestive problems and offers up a step-by-step process to revamp one’s diet with mental health–focused recipes and tips. She recommends completing a diary for three days to record food intake, mood, and exercise, which is intended to enhance awareness of what one is eating and the resulting energy level and attitude. Korn stresses the benefits of meal planning, prepping for meals a week at a time, and eliminating the microwave, which she says alters the molecular structure of food and its health benefits. She offers valuable insight into digestion, sharing steps to address common ailments including acid reflux and hemorrhoids. Recipes are healthy and appealing, including salmon chowder; arugula, fig, and peach salad; stuffed cabbage; and curried quinoa. Chock full of beneficial tools including shopping lists and a chapter on mood-aiding vitamins and nutrients, this worthwhile guide will convince readers that nutrition is an important influence on mental health. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Leslie Korn's book is a wealth of information for 'at home' strategies to implement cleaner, healthier food choices. Food can be either medicine or toxin. Her approach aids in creating a family-friendly cooking environment with simple, clear lists to reduce toxic foods and retool the pantry. These changes support reduction of symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD, and cognitive impairment. The key is her personalized approach: finding the 'right fuel for you!' Sharing her wisdom in nutrition, spices, and foods, recipes are included throughout to strengthen the use of home cooking."

Judith E. Pentz

"An easy-to-follow guide through the maze of modern day food options. . . . A helpful resource for learning how to make sensible lifestyle changes that include a nutritious diet and healthful eating habits to enhance wellness."

The Milton H. Erickson Newsletter

"If food is medicine, what do we eat to heal? Beyond conventional nutrition dogma, Leslie Korn's sophisticated, researched, and truly holistic perspective is urgently needed. There are few resources that I can confidently point to for life-changing support when it comes to healing mood and cognition. I couldn't be more thrilled to add The Good Mood Kitchen to the top of my list."

Kelley Brogan

"Dr. Korn's new book combines current nutrition science with practical wisdom about food choices that address depressed mood and anxiety at their root causes. There is no more urgent need in mental healthcare than sound nutritional advice. The Good Mood Kitchen will change the way mental health providers recommend food for health and healing, and is destined to become a classic."

James Lake