Hierbas de la madre naturaleza or The Food Mood Body Connection

Hierbas de la madre naturaleza

Author: Judith Griffin

Hierbas de la Madre Naturaleza es una verdadera mezcla entre la mitología, el conocimiento popular, las recetas medicinales y culinarias plasmadas en un mosaico de culturas pasadas y presentes. Usted es el invitado en la cocina de la Madre Naturaleza, ya sea en China, en el Mediterráneo, en América del Sur o del Norte o en Africa. Saboree el delicado bouquet de un copa de vino de diente de león, mientras prueba un delicioso pastel cassava tradicional Maya. O simplemente siéntese y relájese mientras el tenaceto que plantó ahuyenta los mosquitos dentro de su hogar.

Author Biography: Judy Griffin, Ph.D., is a renowned teacher, counselor, author, and lecturer. She has traveled and researched indigenous cultures for 20 years to study their foods, herbs, and medicine. Judy has authored several books on nutrition, herbs, diet, organic gardening, aromatherapy, and flower essences.

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The Food-Mood-Body Connection: Nutrition-Based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing

Author: Gary Null

Many conditions that are generally believed to be purely mental disorders are actually caused by vitamin deficiencies, food allergies, hormonal imbalances, and environmental factors. In this book, the best-selling health and fitness expert who has been called "Mr. Natural" by Time magazine presents nutrition-based treatments for the underlying biochemical imbalances that cause many of today's mental problems.

Publishers Weekly

The host of the syndicated daily health radio program Natural Living with Gary Null here takes on the current epidemic of mental-health problems in the U.S. and shows that many of these disorders can be remedied more effectively, faster and much less expensively with natural means than with traditional approaches. Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program), a longtime champion of alternative health care, makes a good case for looking at the nutritional and environmental factors that may be causing such chronic conditions as depression, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Tapping more than 50 physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and holistic doctors, Null presents research, case studies and opinions that support his claim that most mental and emotional conditions can be helped, and often cured, by treating biochemical imbalances. For those who have had lifelong battles with depression, eating disorders and schizophrenia and been given little hope for recovery, the news that, for example, administration of liquid zinc has cured people of anorexia within a few months will be most welcome. Null reports that more than 500,000 children are on antidepressants and that rates of schizophrenia are rising; his book is sure to find a big audience among those (including families) affected by these conditions. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Author's Preface	7
	Introduction	9
	Nutritional and Environmental Influences on Mental States	15
	Food Allerigies	19
	Heavy Metal Toxicity	22
	Chemicals and Other Environmental Factors Contributing to Mental Conditions	32
	What We're Up Against: The Political and Social Dimensions of Nutrition and Mental Health	40
	The Promise of Vitamin Therapy (Orthomolecular) Psychiatry	52
I.	Disorders of Mood or Behavior
1.	Addictions	61
	Drug and Alcohol Addiction	63
	Food Addiction	74
2.	Alzheimer's Disease	77
3.	Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks	89
	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders	96
4.	Eating Disorders	101
5.	Depression (Unipolar Disorder)	115
	Depression and Tobacco	134
	Effect of Exercise, Nutrition, and Lifestyle on Depression	135
6.	Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)	141
7.	Schizophrenia	145
	Schizophrenia and Alcoholism	155
8.	Insomnia	157
9.	Thinking Disorders	171
10.	Tardive Dyskinesia	175
11.	Building Better Brains	179
II.	Disorders In Children
12.	Aggression	199
13.	Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity	205
14.	Autism	227
15.	Behavioral Disorders	235
16.	Chronic Depression	243
17.	Food Allergies	247
III.	Organic Conditions Commonly Misdiagnosed As Mental Disease
18.	Blood Sugar Instability (Hypoglycemia)	263
19.	Candidiasis	269
20.	Chronic Fatigue	285
21.	Hormone Imbalance	303
22.	Nutrient Imbalances in the Body and Brain	309
23.	Premenstrual Syndrome	315
24.	Thyroid Disorders	319
Appendix A	Resources	333
	Biographies & Addresses of Practitioners	333
	Clinical Studies	345
	Environmental Causes of Mental Disease--A Bibliography	412
	Useful Books	414
	Websites	418
Appendix B	The Dangers of Prozac	419
Appendix C	Autism: Is There a Vaccine Connection?	437
	Index	473