Nutritional Psychology – Understanding the Relationship Between Food and Mental Health (2025) Andrea Cook, PhD

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Provides a broad look at the intersection between food and mental health and offers a comprehensive approach to effectively prioritize nutrition as a powerful component to maintaining overall well-being. It explores nutritional factors that promote stable blood sugar levels, optimize brain functioning, and contribute to the microbiome and hormone levels important to the brain–gut connection, alongside insights into food selection, eating disorders, obesity, body image, and environmental influences. This textbook combines psychology, nutrition, and medicine.