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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, offering a lively and evidence-based argument that a whole-food diet is essential for good mental health. She redefines emotional eating, revealing how eating triggers biological responses that affect humans' emotional states immediately and long-term. Albright talks to scientists, physicians, and chefs around the world; drinks wine and kale juice while having her brain scanned; and discovers that hanger is a real and measurable phenomenon. Her 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 a compelling listen. You'll learn how certain foods help reduce the inflammation that can harm mental health, about the critical relationship between the microbiome and the brain, which vitamins help restore the body during intensely emotional times, and how to develop a healthy eating pattern for life--with thirty-day simple kickoff plan. Eat & Flourish is an entertaining, inspiring book for today's world.

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Mary Beth Albright goes beyond nutrients to explore the connection between food and our emotional health. Eat & Flourish is a lively, powerful argument for what to eat and how to eat it. -- Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author

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Mary Beth Albright is a writer, editor, and executive producer at the Washington Post. She was a project director and subject matter expert for the US Surgeon General, appeared on Food Network, and earned degrees from Johns Hopkins and Georgetown. She lives in Washington, DC. Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater. Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981. He's been named one of the Best Voices of the Century as well as a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine. Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him Audiobook Narrator of the Year. Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams. Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules. Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University. He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.

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