The Brain in Your Kitchen
A Collection of Essays on How What We Buy, Eat, and Experience Affects Our Brains
by David DiSalvo
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Description
Every day, we’re faced with choices about what to eat, wear, and purchase. Blinded by a tsunami of information—some good, some bad, some intentionally misleading—often our brains are too overwhelmed to examine all the details. So how do we know we’re making the best decisions for us?
Author and science journalist David DiSalvo asks what’s best for our brains instead.
The Brain in Your Kitchen sifts through the good and bad information on the things we buy, the foods we eat, and the medicines we take. Using findings from cutting-edge science, DiSalvo divulges terrifically useful and little-known facts—each grounded in credible research—about everything from how gluten to cats affect your brain. Learn how we can trick our minds into helping us lose weight, what placebos are costing us big bucks with no results, and what caffeine is actually doing inside your head to give you that extra pep.
Disalvo cuts through frantic media sensation and consumer marketplace babble and gives you the knowledge to distinguish hyperbole from truth so you’re ready next time you sit down for dinner.
Author and science journalist David DiSalvo asks what’s best for our brains instead.
The Brain in Your Kitchen sifts through the good and bad information on the things we buy, the foods we eat, and the medicines we take. Using findings from cutting-edge science, DiSalvo divulges terrifically useful and little-known facts—each grounded in credible research—about everything from how gluten to cats affect your brain. Learn how we can trick our minds into helping us lose weight, what placebos are costing us big bucks with no results, and what caffeine is actually doing inside your head to give you that extra pep.
Disalvo cuts through frantic media sensation and consumer marketplace babble and gives you the knowledge to distinguish hyperbole from truth so you’re ready next time you sit down for dinner.
Advance Praise
"Each chapter is a delicious and nutritious snack for the mind. Science is, after all, our best hope for avoiding the seemingly irresistible call of 'more!' in our culture of excess. Thankfully, writers like DiSalvo use the raw ingredients of science and research to cook practical advice. He presents us with what we know, and just as important, what we do not know about how our brains, which evolved to survive scarcity and lack, can survive in a world awash with excess calories of every type."
—Todd Essig, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Author of "Managing Mental Wealth" at Forbes
“The essays in The Brain in Your Kitchen tackle a wide variety of interesting topics, some have made headlines and stoked controversy and others probably should. DiSalvo delivers a level-headed, healthy skepticism as he brings the light of evidence to bear. He again shows his knack for knowing ‘how much is too much’ in the way of deep scientific language and has created very readable yet informative pieces that leave the reader feeling confident and informed.”
—Dr. Robert Vandervoort, Pharmacotherapy Faculty, Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency
“David DiSalvo’s … been meticulously separating fact from fiction for years, and has collected some of his finest—and to us, most important—work in The Brain in Your Kitchen.”
—Jeff McMahon, University of Chicago lecturer, Editor of Contrary Magazine, and contributor to Forbes
—Todd Essig, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Author of "Managing Mental Wealth" at Forbes
“The essays in The Brain in Your Kitchen tackle a wide variety of interesting topics, some have made headlines and stoked controversy and others probably should. DiSalvo delivers a level-headed, healthy skepticism as he brings the light of evidence to bear. He again shows his knack for knowing ‘how much is too much’ in the way of deep scientific language and has created very readable yet informative pieces that leave the reader feeling confident and informed.”
—Dr. Robert Vandervoort, Pharmacotherapy Faculty, Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency
“David DiSalvo’s … been meticulously separating fact from fiction for years, and has collected some of his finest—and to us, most important—work in The Brain in Your Kitchen.”
—Jeff McMahon, University of Chicago lecturer, Editor of Contrary Magazine, and contributor to Forbes
