The Brain Power Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes to Energize Your Thinking, Boost YourMood, and Sharpen You r Memory

This is a useful little cookbook, featuring about 200 recipes. I wish it had pictures of the meals as they look after preparation, but that is not a major issue. The authors advance the case that proper recipes can "energize your thinking, boost your mood, and sharpen your memory." While I can accept some of that, I fear that they go a bit over the top with sections on food as aphrodisiac, and so on. In short, I am fairly confident that some of their points about the link between diet and brain functioning is somewhat overstated.That said, though, this book features some useful advice and some nice, doable recipes. The first section is called "Brain-energizing foods." And there are some nice recipes here. There are also useful suggestions (as with each section), such as eat breakfast, enjoy protein, load up on fruits and vegetables, etc. Exemplar recipes? Yogurt deviled eggs, Waldorf salad, sunshine salad (featuring spinach, oranges, red onion, cucumber, red bell pepper), and lemon chicken. The second section is termed "Foods that soothe stress and anxiety." Some recipes that they claim would sooth one's tattered nerves: Italian basil tomato salad (and this sounds easy to make and delicious at the same time), and apricot glazed pork kabobs.Want to cure an addiction? The authors claim (and I'm surely not convinced) that dishes such as the following can help deal with drug and alcohol abuse): Sweet and sour cabbage and grilled halibut. What about the aforementioned aphrodisiac dishes? Scalloped oysters and fennel, meatloaf, and banana and yogurt crepes.There are a lot of nice recipes here; many of these clearly appear to be healthy for one. Still, the somewhat oversold claims are a bit much from my view. Nonetheless, the healthy recipes make this a useful cookbook.

This book is low fat and too many carbohydrates. Plus, it uses margarine, wheat flour, fruit juice, pasta. Another conventional medical doctor that does not know what is healthy for the mind/body. It is a low fat book that does not help people trying to control their weight and cravings caused by insulin and blood sugar spikes.I would not recommend this book to anyone. I wish someone had reviewed this book and warned me of the old of date information.

Good, practical recipes (nothing exotic, just stuff like your mom would make) and lots of advice on what foods, minerals, and vitamins are necessary to good brain health, focus, concentration, and stress-reduction. I'd recommend it to friends.

Informative and written with the layperson in mind. Especially helpful if you wish to incorporate dealing with a condition without typical medications & prescribed drugs. There is hope.

Standard diet, just a different twist. Most of the foods I do not like was hoping for something a little different.

not user friendly

I'm trying to keep my memory working. My father had Alz. disease and I will do whatever I can not to get that. There are good recipes in this book too.

Ok.

I really like this book. The recipes are easy to do, there is a large choice and the explanations about HOW the food helps your brain, what does what, etc. are well worth the price. According to me, the only thng missing is some pictures and colours. The book is in black and white only and i find it hard sometimes to visualize the recipes. Other than that, i recommend the book and i overall really like it.

Very interesting book. Arrived in good condition.