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Potatoes not prozac : a natural seven-step dietary plan to stabilize the level of sugar in your blood, control your cravings and lose weight, and recognize how foods affect the way you feel / Kathleen DesMaisons.
LIBRA - Blank Collection RC537 .D468 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DesMaisons, Kathleen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depression, Mental--Nutritional aspects.
- Depression, Mental.
- Depression, Mental--Diet therapy.
- Depression, Mental--Popular works.
- Depressive Disorder--diet therapy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Depressive Disorder--diet therapy.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
- Summary:
- In her book, Potatoes Not Prozac, Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D., addictive nutrition expert, reveals that emotional troubles such as mood swings or depression often can't be fought by medication. Her radical new way of finding and maintaining mental and physical health offers instead a prescription for altering our eating habits. 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 actually provide just the opposite effect, triggering feelings of exhaustion, hopelessness and low self-esteem. What's worse, these foods don't stop our cravings for them - they only make us want to go back for more. In addition to food charts, questionnaires to determine your own sugar sensitivity, and accessible scientific lessons that explain your body chemistry, DesMaisons provides a straightforward seven-step plan to overcome your addictions. There is no regime of measurements or self-denial: you tailor the plan to your tastes and lifestyle. These steps are actually more liberating than any diet could be. You will no longer settle for the short-term relief from pain or problems that cookies or ice cream might give you. You will find the optimism, energy and high self-esteem you have craved for so long. Because DesMaisons is committed to her own recovery, she is a compassionate, skilled guide in navigating you through this process, one choice at a time.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ch. 2. Are you sugar sensitive?
- ch. 3. It's not your fault
- ch. 4. Ups and downs of blood sugar
- ch. 5. Brain chemistry 101
- ch. 6. Getting started
- ch. 7. Take three giant steps
- ch. 8. Adjusting your carbohydrates
- ch. 9. Sugars and you
- ch. 10. Sticking with it
- ch. 11. So you drink coffee, smoke and stay fat?
- ch. 12. Radiant recovery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Blank Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Blank Collection copy has bookmark from Borders Book Shop laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0684849534
- 9780684849539
- OCLC:
- 37870661
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