Potatoes Not Prozac, A Natural
Seven-Step Dietary Plan to Stabilize
the Level of Sugar in Your Blood,
Control Your Cravings and Lose
Weight, and Recognize How Foods
Affect the Way You Feel by Kathleen
DesMaisons
Life Saver
The same brain chemicals that are altered by antidepressant drugs are
also affected by the foods we eat. According to addiction expert
DesMaisons, many people, including those who are depressed, are sugar
sensitive. Eating sweets gives them a temporary emotional boost, which
leads to a craving for still mor e sweets. The best way to keep these brain
chemicals in the right balance and keep blood-sugar levels steady, she
says, is through the dietary plan she describes in Potatoes Not Prozac.
Her rules are fairly simple--eat three meals a day, eat proteins with every
meal (especially those high in the amino acid tryptophan, which creates
the calming neurotransmitter serotonin), and eat more complex
carbohydrates, such as whole grains and, yes, potatoes. Not only will this
make you less depressed, DesMai sons says, but it will also keep you
from craving too much of the foods you shouldnt eat, making it a self -
regulating system.
I wish I'd stumbled across this book years ago! I knew I had a problem with
sugar that was unlike other people, but no one really believes in sugar
addiction or sugar sensitivity, so I received no help, or even empathy,
elsewhere. Some weight loss gurus suggest there is a link to "emotional
eating," and urge people to get help with that, but that is an entirely
different matter than having a skewed biochemistry. Overall, it was a relief
to know what was wrong with me, and what I could do about it. I'm slowly
working my way through this program and the results have be en almost
immediate. I have my life back again, and the depression, quick temper,
unproductivity and overly emotional feelings that permeated my life for so
long have all but evaporated. I have done a lot to "fix" myself in the past,
and now I know why it wasn't working on this problem. Everything fell into
place when I read this book. Anyone with this problem will know in the first
five pages if this is right for them, and subsequently on every page
thereafter. It is worth the small investment, and there is amazing support
on the online community as well. At the heart of it all, it is obvious author
Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D., clearly just wants to help anyone she can.
This is another reason the book and program are so powerful.
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