If you’ve ever tried to medicate away a bad mood with a handful of chocolates or a bag full of pretzels, you might have been onto something. According to Dr. Mike Dow, a cognitive behavioral therapist who specializes in eating disorders and addictions, foods such as pasta, white bread, doughnuts, bacon and potato chips flood our brains with feel-good brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. “Just as you can become dependent on a nicotine fix or a cocaine high, so can you grow to rely on the effects of high-carb or high-fat foods,” he writes. The solution, he says, is to “add healthier ‘booster’ foods — those that promote a sustainable and nonaddictive release of brain chemicals — along with booster activities to increase the chemicals that our brains crave.” Yoga, anyone? (Published by Avery)
DIY Diets: The Diet Books For a Slimmer You in 2012
‘Diet Rehab: 28 Days to Finally Stop Craving the Foods That Make You Fat’
Full List
2012 Diet Books
- The Diet Books for a Slimmer You in 2012
- ‘The Petite Advantage Diet’
- ‘Choose to Lose’
- ‘Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food’
- ‘The Happiness Diet’
- ‘The Drunk Diet: How I Lost 40 Pounds … Wasted’
- ‘I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down’
- 10 Pounds in 10 Days
- ‘The DASH Diet Action Plan’
- ‘The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It’
- ‘Diet Rehab: 28 Days to Finally Stop Craving the Foods That Make You Fat’