Lift Your Mood with Power Food by Christine Bailey

Healthy Foods and Recipes to Lift Your Mood and Boost Your Energy Levels

Nutritionist Christine Bailey’s Lift Your Mood is a life-enhancing guide, carefully devised to combine comprehensive, up-to-date, accessible information with practical advice and more than 80 specifically designed recipes.

Chapter One, ‘The Physiology of Melancholy’, looks at the physiological link between nutrition and mental well-being. Chapter Two, ‘Mood’s Many Guises’, looks at specific mind- and mood-related ailments, such as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), insomnia and Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS), and shows how common disorders can be overcome simply and effectively through improvements in diet. Chapter Three, ‘Feel Good Food’, presents more than 80 specially commissioned, easy-to-follow recipes, each with a perfectly balanced nutrient profile.

To finish off this plan for non-medical treatment of mood disorders, Lift Your Mood concludes with a chapter on nutritional supplements, as well as helpful general advice on improving mental fitness and mood through simple exercise and relaxation techniques.

By following the advice and specially commissioned recipes, you can embrace a healthy new lifestyle, helping you stay alert, motivated and happy for many years to come.

Learn how a simple change in the food you have for breakfast could help treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), with this recipe from the book.