Physicians, as others, are often confused by conflicting news in the media regarding the nutritional benefits of what we eat. What is good for us, and what is potentially or definitely harmful to our bodies? Cocores, in this easy-to-read book, provides practical guidelines for patients, as well as for the physicians who serve them, on how to make informed choices to rationally eat better to live better and more productive lives.
Andrew E. Slaby, M.D., PH.D., M.P.H.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine
Mark S. Gold, M.D.
Review Date: January 22, 2007
Reviewer: Psyche Nutrition Sciences, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ USA
Substance Abuse Disorders, or addictions, have been thought to be the exclusive province of drugs of abuse, like cocaine or heroin. More recently, food has been considered a substance of abuse, with morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other consequences the result of a pathological attachment to food. What we eat causes profound changes in the brain. This book by Dr. Cocores is an easy-to-use guide to recovery from the disease of obesity - a brain disease that causes shame and guilt and results in secondary diseases of the body and spirit of the patient.
-Mark S. Gold, M.D., Professor and Chief of the Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, Community Health and Family Medicine Division of Addiction Medicine at the McKnight Brain Institute