Potatoes Not Prozac: A Natural Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Control Your Cravings and Lose Weight, Recognize How Foods Affect the Way You Feel, and Stabilize the Level of Sugar in Your Blood

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By Elizabeth Aldworth on Jan 11, 2009

Books such as The Serotonin Power Diet Sugar Blues and this one suggest we eat brown versus white foods, eat regularly and cut out white flour and sugar. <p> Potatoes Not Prozac is particularly concerned with the health of people who have recently stopped using alcohol or drugs. Yet its suggestions follow the guidelines all of us learned as children. These books all suggest we eat something containing protein and complex carbohydrates every four or five hours. They all insist we eat breakfast within an hour and a half of waking rather than waiting four hours and then diving into sweets. The suggestions are specific and simple. They all promise better control over weight and food cravings. <p> We gain a better understanding of how physical well being, mental clarity and emotional balance may be improved. <p> These books suggest not only an end to moodiness but a path toward alert thinking, emotional contentment and better physical energy. They talk about the link betweeen nutrition, serotonin and sleep. <p> The ideas are powerful through their deceptively simple nature. We all eat. if we eat better, we can live better. No doctor needed. Just a desire to change a few simple things, some practice and the promise of lots of benefits. <p> Oh yes, lots of specifics are included about food ideas. .