Brain Nutrition

When one decides to go on a weight loss plan, for any reasons and encompassing any activities, it is not very difficult for one to start. You can find tons of articles on the internet explaining how to start out on a weight loss plan, how to make a proper schedule, what things to do and what to avoid etc. But a topic that is rarely addressed anywhere is how to stick to a weight loss plan, and more importantly, what to do when you find yourself getting side-tracked, losing your motivation, and getting back to where you were before.

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.

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.