The Food-Mood-Body Connection [Hardcover]

Gary Null (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 5, 2000

More than fifty physicians describe their clinical experience treating maladies ranging from alcoholism to depression, from yeast overgrowth (candidiasis) to PMS. In case after case, these doctors found, mental and physical disorders were associated with vitamin deficiencies, environmental toxins, hormonal imbalances, food allergies, or an inability to absorb certain nutrients. Often, problems that had resisted all other treatments responded to nutrition-based approaches, sometimes combined with lifestyle changes.
The Food-Mood-Body Connection presents treatments that address the underlying biochemical imbalances which cause or contribute to conditions such as: aggressive behavior, alcoholism, allergies, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, autism, bipolar disorder, dementia, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, hypoglycemia, insomnia, learning disabilities, obsessive-compulsive disorder, PMS, schizophrenia, thyroid disorders...

Editorial Reviews

From 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.
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About the Author

Bestselling health and nutrition author GARY NULL is one of America's leading health and fitness writers. He is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of medical articles.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press; 1 edition (September 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583220313
• ISBN-13: 978-1583220313
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,175,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Valuable info in utter disarray, June 26, 2001

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Gautam Srikanth - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Food-Mood-Body Connection (Hardcover)

Although "The Food-Mood-Body Connection" teems with interesting information, its format robs it of instructive value. It takes the form of a long series of interviews with alternative-health practitioners, with occasional (and I mean occasional: more than half the book is paragraphs quoted verbatim) comments from the "author," Gary Null. If such a style appeals to you, you'll love this book; if you prefer knowledge in a usable context, however, turn elsewhere.

With real editing, this may become a valuable resource. Until then, most would be better served with Elizabeth Somer's "Food & Mood," a truly useful guide to this important subject.

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very garbled, April 1, 2001

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"kangarex" (Keokuk, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Food-Mood-Body Connection (Hardcover)

There is a lot of interesting information in this book, and it's in a field that could use some more interest than it generally gets. Unfortunately the information appears in the middle of a huge mish-mash of every kind of alternative therapies. Reflexology occurs right beside various vitamin therapies, lithium treatment of manic-depression, food allergies and sensitivities, and heavy metal poisoning.

The various causes, and therapies discussed have little or no evaluation of their effectiveness, or history discussed. A fair number of individual cases are discussed, but nothing that would allow a reader to distinguish the obviously helpful from the promising from the complete hookum.

Another problem is that while good nutrition is discussed, and various ways in which supplements (vitamin & other) can help people achieve better health, there is no way given to try to sort out what kinds of supplements might do you some good. There is an exception for a couple of disorders (like alcoholism), where there is a more general discussion of what supplements a heavy drinker should take, particularly if s/he is trying to quit, but in general, no.

Last but not least, the discussion of toxic environments goes beyond unhelpful and into downright alarmist. While maintaining a healthy environment is admitably difficult in this day and age (if not impossible), it does no one any good to be looking at everything they eat, breathe, or touch as a potential toxin. So doing only raises stress levels - which as this book points out, is an environmental/lifestyle problem all its own.

In short - there's some interesting information in here, but it's not worth the effort, and the resultant paranoia from reading the book, to extract it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Food Mood Connection, September 9, 2008

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Gie "life long learner" (Fort Collins, CO USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Paperback)

The writer's passion for his communication of empirical research about the importance of foods affect on health became apparent to me during a recent fundraiser for a local public television station in my state. I have often thought that the health issues that I face are a matter of diet. This book not only describes symptoms of ailments but suggests food and vitamin or mineral supplementation regimes to address those ailments. In addition I found the bibliographic information comprehensive. This is an excellent reference text that empowers the user. I am extremely thankful to have become aware of this text.