Avery Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

Disappointing, nothing new presented here and, it appears, aimed at Americans who often choose to eat an appalling diet of chemical laden adulterated rubbish washed down with endless carbonated soft drinks and don’t see the connection to their failing health. Dr Mosconi perpetuates the cholesterol myth and appears to believe in calorie controlled diets (need to apply the second law of thermodynamics and recognise how the body responds to different food groups - what you eat is more important than how much).There is useful information in the book but not sufficient to make it a ‘must have’ book as there is too much padding out with diet advice. She talks a lot about the “Mediterranean diet” which is open to interpretation. For her, being Italian, that means a predominately Italian diet but a tour of the countries around the Mediterranean will show a huge difference in what people consume. To many the link to a Mediterranean diet starts with Ancel Key’s investigations and what he thought was a Mediterranean diet based on a study of people in Crete, however he collected data during a fasting period (religion related) so it wasn’t valid.

simple but mouth watering recipes with boat loads of research to back them up. what more could you want? to be clear, the majority of the book is the science, written in beautifully flowing non-technical language, and the recipes are at the end, but i love being able to oscillate between the two.

Some fantastic and mind blowing information about the nutritional value of foods and their effects on the body!! Didn’t put the book down for a few days. - The only thing I wasn’t keen on was the self-references to blog posts/websites all the way through, it made it seem more like an opinionated piece than one based of scientific evaluation and balance!

I received this book yesterday and it fell open to the page where Dr. Mosconi recommends that people eat CAVIAR every day for brain health. Why, she can pick it up very cheaply at a Middle Eastern Grocery store in Ithaca, New York!I refrained from throwing this book across the room and/or immediately taking it to the second hand bookstore. IThe information isn't even new. The benefits of organic food, the Mediterranean diet, dark chocolate, and avoiding red meats and refined sugars has been known for at least thirty years.I am angry and insulted to be advised to eat expensive, imported foods instead of a locally sourced diet.This book has not made a good impression and I'll update this review when I have read the rest, to see if my opinion changes.

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