The
Care and Feeding of Your Brain: How Diet and Environment
Affect What You Think and Feel
by Kenneth Giuffre, Theresa Foy Digeronimo
Reviews
Synopsis
Discover the mental side effects of commonly
prescribed medicine and how food and additives affect the brain, and thus,
thoughts and behavior.
The author, Comments invited: kenbrain@erols.com,
February 5, 1999
Optimize your brain function, based on
scientific fact.
Based on the best researchers in the field,
my attempt at helping you choose how to have optimal brain function (conventional
and alternative approaches)... It covers the effects of foods, supplements,
herbs, lifestyle, prescription/OTC/illegal drugs on the brain with respect
to alertness, memory, mood, sleep, sexual function, stress, and aging.
The publisher, Kae Tienstra (publicist)
kt4pr@aol.com, July 16, 1999
You need to take care of your brain as
well as your body.
You need to take care of your brain if you
want it to operate at peak level. In THE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR BRAIN,
authors Giuffre and DiGeronimo show how everything we ingest has a positive
or negative effect on our brains. They show how foods, drugs, herbs, supplements
- everything we put into our bodies - can help or hinder brain power. This
is a great book for anyone interested in brain chemistry and how to make
it work for you.
Customer Comments
A reader from Hasbrouck
Heights, NJ, September 20, 1999
I enjoyed the easy informative style
of this book.
1) It was like sitting and talking with
Dr. Giuffre in a very relaxed atmosphere. The bits of humor in the book
produce an added level of comfort. 2) The book was extremely informative
yet easy to read.
A reader from South Carolina,
August 4, 1999
I am a future author of a personal book
about epilepsy.
I recently purchased "Care and Feeding"
and I am thoroughly enjoying reading it. I have a personal interest in
the brain because I had epilepsy as a child and young adult... You have
reinforced much of what I already 'knew' about the brain, but before now
I did not have the medical explanation for what I 'knew' to be true.
rosestacey@aol.com from
rockaway, new jersey, August 2, 1999
This book was most interesting and informative.
I found that this book covered a great deal
of information but was presented in way that made it quite simple for the
reader to understand. I learned alot of things about the brain that I did
not know before and I am a BSN, RN. I found that I could not put the book
down. I read it in one evening and it did not feel as if I were reading
a text book . Cudos to the author for a concise well written book.
xxxpx@juno.com from New
York City, July 10, 1999
Better than other more popular books
in this genre!
As a new author, Giuffre probably did not
market the book as aggressively as some. However it is more comprehensive,
better written, easier to read, and more accurate than other more popular
books by famous "pop-sci" authors. Giuffre writes like an experienced clinician
who cares.
geetakg@aol.com from Wyckoff,
New Jersey, April 24, 1999
VERY INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT AFFECTS
US
I brought this book to a networking group
2 days ago. After browsing through it, a couple of them said they were
going out immediately to buy the book, one asked me to buy it for her.
I am ordering that one now! One of my friends was starting a corporate
stress reliever business. This book was perfect timing for her! I certainly
didn't realize a lot of the "boosters" and "zappers" that I have in my
life and diet everyday. Not only does the knowledge help me, I can understand
and guide my children better!
A reader from Washington
Twp. NJ, March 25, 1999
Real info on aphrodisiacs and drugs.
Lots of good reading in this short book
but I found info on aphrodisiacs and drugs most useful. Explains why most
illegal drugs mess up the brain, and which "smart pill" herbal things like
St. Johns Wort and Ginko are OK for you.
* * *
People DO have various problems with life.
Instead of naming and redefining these problems as various "mental diseases",
and labeling people with them, as is currently done within the psychiatric
community, these problems with life and living are best understood and
addressed outside of the traditional psychiatric paradigm. Why?
Because psychiatric "treatments" such as ECT, lobotomy, and powerful psychotropic
drugs are barbaric, based upon severe faulty scientific methodology, and
quite simply, harm people.
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