Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Cookbook: Eat Right to Live Longer, Look Younger, Be Thinner, and Decrease Your Risk of Obesity, Depression, ... Disease, Heart Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes

by Tana Amen, Daniel G. Amen

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life - LECTURE AUDIO Amen Audio Lecture Series Presents: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life In this 6 CD audio program and companion handbook, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's surprising and effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life: To Quell Anxiety and Panic: Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner turmoil To Fight Depression: Learn how to kill ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) To Curb Anger: Follow the Amen anti-anger diet and learn the nutrients that calm rage To Conquer Impulsiveness and Learn to Focus: Develop total focus with the "One-Page Miracle" To Stop Obsessive Worrying: Follow the "get unstuck" writing exercise and learn other problem-solving exercises

Genres: Health, Food, Cooking, Cookbooks, Nonfiction

6 pages, Audio CD

First published July 1, 2010

About the author

Tana K. Amen, BSN, has worked as a Trauma/Neurosurgical intensive care nurse and is the wife of Daniel G. Amen. Tana is the nutrition and fitness leader of the Amen household. She practices martial arts regularly, has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and enjoys a variety of other physical activities. Keeping her family focused on fitness and health is a primary value for Tana.

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book didn't do much for me. The premise is that the book is guiding you towards eating foods and developing a diet geared towards food for improving your brain. Unfortunately, it's almost exclusively Mediterranean food and recipes, think recipes with mint, and cucumber, which didn't hold much appeal for me.

[Monique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book with top quality slick pages and amazing pictures of the recipes. I felt this was like an infomercial as every page talked about their Amen Clinics and how to get more advice. While the information was worthwhile, the sticker price of the book would have been thin as I wouldn't be able to eat for over a week. Glad my library had a copy...

[Alison · Rating 2 out of 5]

Upon more investigation, I'm giving this book 2 stars. The recipes contain virtually no cholesterol, and since the book has been written, studies have come out on the importance of having some in our diets for good health. The author has more recently written an article on why cholesterol is "more important than you think". So, I'm going to keep adding a little butter to my veggies.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this author's approach to cooking and eating healthy foods. I'm going to try a few of the recipes, including the cranberry walnut muffins, the quinoa berry breakfast, and use some of the party recipes.

[Lacey Louwagie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the recipes are yummy and all are healthy, but most of them have LONG ingredients lists that include expensive or hard-to-find items. Just not my style of cooking these days, when both time and money are limited.

[Heydi Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

So when I found out this book existed I was very excited. I’ve read all their books. I appreciated the brief summary of their diet points in the beginning and a few of their recipes but I really appreciate their new Brain Warrior’s Cookbook much better.