Main description:

This book discusses the role of food and the human nutrition-behavior interface. Food makes us what we are, but in addition to providing adequate nutrition, does it influence behavior? This book looks at this critical question from various angles and considers different concepts and approaches to food, nutrition and well-being. To better understand the entire gamut of the food-behavior linkage, the author unravels the workings of the mind - brain link. The book discusses this aspect and the findings add to the existing fund of knowledge in this area. Much of today's malaise in humans can be traced to the food consumed by individuals. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the current state of human nutrition and how this can be linked to behavior.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Food-Human Behavior interlink - how to construct conceptual models?

Chapter 3: Human nutrition-behavior interface - Future research imperatives

Chapter 4: Brain-behavior interlink - a Conundrum

Chapter 5: Neurotransmitters and Short-term Effects of Human Nutrition on Human behavior

Chapter 6: Under nutrition and its fallout

Chapter 7: Mineral deficiency and human behavior - vis-a-vis the Central Nervous System (CNS)

Chapter 8: Role of dietary supplements on mental function

Chapter 9: The sugar-behavior link

Chapter 10: Coffee, Tea, Methylxanthines-Behavior Link

Chaprter11: How does alcohol affect brain behavior?

Chapter 12: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa - the dreaded eating disorders of the millennium

Chapter 13: Overweight and Obesity - the bane of modern times

Chapter 14: The Aloe vera as an important herbal remedy for diabetes

Chapter 15: Conclusion