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  • An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory
  • Written by: Neal D Barnard MD MD FACC
  • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
  • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Could that glass of milk affect your memory? Is that aluminum can increasing your risk for Alzheimer's disease? Can a banana be a brain booster? Everyone knows that good nutrition supports your heart and overall health, but did you know that certain foods can protect your brain and optimize its function? In Power Foods for the Brain, Dr. Neal Barnard reveals the suprising mealtime choices that can make a major difference in preserving and enhancing memory and brain health.

Leading health expert Dr. Neal Barnard has gathered the most important research and studies from all over the world to create a program outlining the specific food choices that can boost brain health, reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other causes of memory loss. In addition, these power foods will help listeners tackle the minor malfunctions of their busy day-to-day lives, including low energy, poor sleep patterns, irritability, and memory lapses. The plan includes information on:

  • The best foods to increase cognitive function and boost folate, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12
  • The dangers dairy products and meats may have on memory
  • The role alcohol plays in Alzheimer's risk
  • The latest research on certain toxic metals, like aluminums found in cookware, soda cans, and common antacids

In addition to revealing the surprising role nutrition and the power foods play on preserving brain health, Power Foods for the Brain will also include 50-75 recipes to put them to work, as well as quick time-saving kitchen tips.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2013 Neal Barnard (P)2013 Hachette Audio

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A must listen for everyone! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It can help everyone in all stages of life.

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  • Debra
  • 2013-04-11

Audio Book Needs a PDF cookbook attachment

Excellent information that is applicable for any level of physiological understanding; the author does not dummy down information, but makes it accessible.

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  • Camille
  • 2013-09-23

Worth the read

What made the experience of listening to Power Foods for the Brain the most enjoyable?

Good narration and interesting material

What about Jeremy Arthur’s performance did you like?

Quite good

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Fascinatingly informative about where garbage in our food and personal products comes from. Compelling book about eating a more plant-centric diet.

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  • Sheri
  • 2017-06-01

Vegan book

I didn't know that dairy and meats could affect our guts and thus our brain. Say goodbye to all bad habits and get healthy along with me

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  • Keith A.
  • 2015-04-10

Waste of money!!!

Would you try another book from Neal Barnard and/or Jeremy Arthur?

No

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Very disappointed!

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As an RN with a strong nutritional background, I was greatly disappointed with this book. The authors motive to convince me to refrain from ALL meat/dairy is poorly substantiated as he never even addressed the benefits of grass fed red meat. And the fact he wants you to limit your intake of vital minerals is laughable. Save your money as you will learn NOTHING regarding optimizing brain health (assuming you read the medical/nutritional news) and this book might even work against your goals in optimizing your brain health..

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  • Lauren
  • 2015-10-03

wonderful book

emphasizes plant based eating which I already do but really reinforced what I already believe. Don't eat animals or their products! doesn't do you any good.

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  • BakeretteJen
  • 2015-11-30

Powerful

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This book was jam-packed with nutritional information that I loved. Dr. Barnard puts the medical information in layman's turns so it is easy to understand and comprehend. Sometimes nutritionists and doctors use their medical terms and expect you to understand what they're saying. There was so much information that I wanted to remember or highlight and so I bought the book! He gives such compelling information from our diets, to vitamins, minerals, exercise, and sleep. Jeremy Arthur also did a great job in narrating the book.

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  • Will
  • 2017-12-27

some good info but strong bias clouds objectivity

Have read over a dozen books on food and health. I learned a few new things in this one so was worth the time. Agreed with much he said but he is overly biasesd against any animal products to the point it erodes credibility. It seems universally accepted vegetables are good for health in every book I have read. Then you have the fats and ethically and properly raised meat is nutrient dense and critical (paleo camp) and then the carbs and vegan is good (vegetarian or vegan camp). This author quotes a lot of research but like most he picks what supports his existing personal bias. When he says vitamins are best from food except B12 which is better from fortified cereals and vitamins I question his objectivity. Nature provides all that we need not a cereal company or lab. I am interested in science along with balanced common sense and when an author starts in on an animal welfare or all animal products are bad kick you lose me. Human history as well as disease patterns do not support this view. Furthermore everyone's genetics and body's are unique so anyone who says all bread is bad or all meat is bad or all saturated fat is bad is likely pushing their agenda. I read every book with scepticism and look for biases or willfull blindness.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2018-03-07

SUPERB! Thank you for the “science” behind this book.

Very concise and easy to follow. Longevity runs on both sides of my family. However, I have seen that my brothers and sisters do not enjoy a quality of life that my father and mother enjoyed into their last years. Mental clarity well into their nineties - father died at 95 and mother just shy of 100.
A must read for not only those that are approaching their senior years but for the young. This book offers hope and guidance to make the changes in what we eat so we can grow old gracefully.

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  • Heather
  • 2015-10-28

learned so much

Great book! I've learned alot about our brain and how to feed it correctly. Very helpful advice.

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  • Linda
  • 2016-05-11

Time for a Food Revolution.

An excellent book. Thank-you Dr Neil. I brought. sweet potatoes yesterday and baked them today.

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