Eat & Flourish

How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being

By: Mary Beth Albright

Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Caroline Shaffer

A lively and evidence-based argument that a whole food diet is essential for good mental health.

Food has power to nourish your mind, supporting emotional wellness through both nutrients and pleasure. In this groundbreaking book, journalist Mary Beth Albright draws on cutting-edge research to explain the food/mood connection. She redefines “emotional eating” based on the science, revealing how eating triggers biological responses that affect humans’ emotional states both immediately and long-term. Albright’s accessible voice and ability to interpret complex studies from the new field of nutritional psychology, combined with straightforward suggestions for what to eat and how to eat it, make this an indispensable guide. Listeners will come away knowing how certain foods help reduce the inflammation that can harm mental health, the critical relationship between the microbiome and the brain, which vitamins help restore the body during intensely emotional times, and how to develop a healthful eating pattern for life—with 30-day kickoff plan included. Eat and Flourish is the entertaining, inspiring book for today’s world.

©2023 Mary Beth Albright (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Eat for good mental health!

I had never put the two explicitly together but eating and mental health are so much a part of the other! Great approach advice and many hints! Thank you!

Can’t handle it.

The narrator sounds like a robot. Siri sounds better than this. I regret using a credit.

Very basic. Wish I hadn't bought it!

Too basic. Covers "what is a nerve?" and "your brain decides what to eat, and what you eat affects your brain..."
Unless you are new to nutrition, this probably won't help you much.
If you've had an intro psychology class, you probably know 75% of this already.