Unlock Your Brain's Potential: The Science Behind Eating for Cognitive Performance

Fernanda Marques R Silva: Now I see my meals as the way I’m nourishing my body, specifically my brain. The book is very easy to understand,I could identify what I was doing wrong in my diet, and now changed it to healthier options.

Germany on Sep 24, 2023

Zyppy: Brain Food è un libro che esplora il legame tra alimentazione e salute cerebrale, offrendo una prospettiva scientifica e accessibile su come il cibo può influenzare la nostra mente. Scritto dalla neuroscienziata Lisa Mosconi, il libro fornisce una panoramica completa delle ultime ricerche nel campo della nutrizione e del cervello.

Una delle cose che ho apprezzato di più di questo libro è la sua approccio basato sulla scienza. Mosconi si basa su studi e ricerche scientifiche per supportare le sue affermazioni, rendendo il libro affidabile e ben documentato. Non si tratta di una semplice raccolta di consigli dietetici, ma di una guida completa che spiega il perché dietro le raccomandazioni.

Il libro è organizzato in modo chiaro e logico, con capitoli dedicati a diversi aspetti dell'alimentazione e del cervello. Mosconi esplora i nutrienti chiave per la salute cerebrale, come i grassi omega-3, le vitamine del gruppo B e gli antiossidanti, spiegando come influenzano la nostra mente e fornendo suggerimenti su come includerli nella nostra dieta.

Un altro aspetto interessante del libro è la sua attenzione alla prevenzione delle malattie cerebrali. Mosconi...

Italy on Aug 06, 2023

Marta: Reso, non avevo visto in lingua inglese

Italy on Mar 06, 2023

Sydsdottir: I have been feeling a bit ‘brain foggy’ recently and was looking to improve this. I’m interested in nutrition anyway so was pleased to find this book. It’s a great read. Lots of interesting information. Although I knew a lot about healthy eating there were real insights in this book about what your brain needs - foods, vitamins, minerals, in what quantities etc.
I actually do feel better from incorporating the things I’ve learnt into my diet.

United Kingdom on Jul 30, 2022

G: First, I’ve read through the reviews and very sad that the negative reviews have so many helpful votes on them and you can tell those reviews didn’t even read the entire book!!!!!!!
I read this on our ereader and then had to have a paper copy because I found it so helpful and easy to understand! Sure, it has a lot discussed that we should already know but she goes into detail and discusses studies and her experience with brain scans too. She also does NOT ONLY recommend expensive food items like caviar as one reviewer was brazen enough to say without even reading the book but because “it fell open” to a page that does happen to talk about how good caviar is.
I think everyone should give this book a read! She really drives home the importance of a healthy life. It breaks down and explains why and what our diet should look like for a healthy brain. I find she explains the science/studies behind it all in a very convincing and easy to read way. It even includes recipes! I can’t wait to read her next book, The XX Brain.

Canada on Jun 11, 2021

Book Addict: There are some great ideas for improving brain health in this book. Mostly involve eating and lifestyle habits. However there wasn't a whole lot that I haven't read before. Especially regarding nutrition and exercise.

I did learn some new things about the critical power of sleep. And some things about how to identify regular versus organic produce by the labels.

I am knocking this down a star because of the author's insistence on organic and difficult to find ingredients. If you live outside a major metropolitan area, you won't be able to get these items except to order online. Carbon footprint, folks. Also, the people she sites in the studies mostly live in rural areas. Eating the food that is available to them. My suggestion is to plant your own garden.
Overall, a pretty good read, especially if you haven't studied the subject before.

United States on May 14, 2021

John Paris: This is not nutritional advice at its best - I wanted to like this book. It's with the best of intentions that it confuses and encombers as well as soft-pedals what readers interested in protecting their brains really need to hear. Promotes long-ago disproved ideas such as "complete proteins" are only found in meat and eggs. If the word "Fish" where cholesterol, I'd have heart disease from reading this book - gushing over the "magical" qualities of olive oil and fish -- even suggesting one eat fish three times a week and saying nothing of the neurotoxin, mercury, nor the vast list of other contaminants now regularly found in fish and that build up in the blood of fish eaters. Late meta-analyses simply do not support the fish-is-heart/brain-food myth that so many health writers have latched on to. This one asserts that fish is "required." Chock full of contradictions and conflicting advice, and overladen with superlatives and hyperboles. The author reveals what she calls her "secret weapon": caviar. Caviar? What, at $320 per 2 ounces? Really? States, "There is no connection between the amount of cholesterol you eat and your brain's function" - and talks about eating a 5-egg omelet....

United States on Jan 16, 2019

Abacus: There are many books about nutrition and cognitive functions. The authors ground their nutrition protocol on what humans ate during the paleolithic era. Often these authors contradict each other. For some, we were better hunters than gatherers so we ate mostly meat. For others, we were better gatherers and ate primarily nuts, plants, fruits. Others advance our digestive system can’t tolerate grains because it was a modern invention of the first agricultural revolution (about 10,000 years ago).

However, anthropology suggests that paleolithic diets were dependent of where people lived. Close to shores, they ate more fish; within the forest they ate plants; in areas with herbivores they ate more meat. Also, humans ate grains millions of years before the agricultural revolution. And, we can digest those just fine because of an enzyme earmarked to digest grains (amylase). So, paleolithic diets were as varied as they are today.

Mosconi gets the anthropology right. Her foundation is based on two empirical findings. The first one is her studying of the “Blue Zones” or the five areas in the World associated with the greatest proportion of centenarians. And, her second...

United States on May 04, 2018