The Serotonin Solution: The Potent Substance That Can Help You Stop Bingeing, Lose Weight, and Feel Great - Hardcover

Wurtman, Judith J.; Suffes, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449910016 ISBN 13: 9780449910016

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1996

Synopsis

Stating that overeating is a side affect of stress, a diet program demonstrates how to use this fact for weight control and stress reduction, offering multiple plans that carefully control protein, carbohydrate, and fat levels. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Hudith J. Wurtman, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fields of nutrition and behavior, and the bestselling author of <b>The Carbohydrate Craver's Diet</b> and <b>Managing Your Mind and Mood Through Food</b>. Susan Suffes is a senior editor with a major publishing house.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

From the Inside Flap

for the refrigerator after a grueling day at work, or pay your bills with a bowl of potato chips by your side? If your answer is yes, you eat your way through stress: you are an "emotional overeater." And if every diet you have ever tried has ended in failure because you lose control of your eating when your emotions fray, here is good news. Contrary to every eating plan you've ever tried or read about, the cure for emotional overeating is not expensive therapy or superhuman will power. It's food.<br>The secret is the neurotransmitter serotonin, a naturally occurring chemical in the brain that makes us feel good. Stress interferes with our serotonin supply and leaves us without enough of this brain chemical to regulate our moods. But we can boost serotonin simply by eating the right kinds of foods. The reason you feel an uncontrollable urge to eat is because your brain is crying out for relief; it is desperately seeking serotonin! And when you eat the right foods, serotonin runs on full a

Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449910016
• ISBN 13: 9780449910016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288