Brain Nutrition

The author, Yuchi Yang, has been a registered dietitian for more than twenty years. She has been counseling patients with Parkinson’s on food and nutrition to optimize their health with diet. Levodopa (L-dopa) is the most commolny used medication to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Dietary protein can compete with L-dopa to cross the blood-brain barrier and decrease the efficacy of the drug. Such problem of protein and levodopa competition usually appears years after the initiation of L-dopa therapy.

Learn how to tap into your brainpower and stress less to weigh less - and kick your sugar habit to the curb. "Like most people, I was not dealing well with the low levels of continuous stress in my life. Stress had me turning to comfort foods, which tend to be high in fat and sugar, and sometimes to alcohol. It was stress-induced overeating and under-exercising that was wreaking havoc on my body. And my brain was driving it all."

This book is a true story about the journey of a woman who steadily lost up to 25 pounds during a 6-month period, which averages to a realistic one pound a week, give or take. Like everyone else, she enjoys freely eating whatever she wants without giving thought to the type of food or the quantity.