From Library Journal
Yes, you can change your brain, and it doesn't take surgery. Carper, the author of best sellers like Miracle Cures, explains how nutrition can do the trick. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Jean Carper, the bestselling author of Food: Your Miracle Medicine, examines the amazing potential of the brain in her latest book. Learn how to improve your memory, brighten your mood, and increase creativity -- simply by eating a healthy diet!

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Myth: You are born with a genetically determined brain of fixed size and potential, and there is nothing you can do to change it.

Reality: Your brain is a growing, changing organ and you can greatly improve the very structure, wiring, and functioning of your brain cells by what you eat and the supplements you take.

In Your Miracle Brain, Jean Carper, the bestselling author of Miracle Cures, Stop Aging Now!, and Food-Your Miracle Medicine, reveals the astonishing new discoveries that have caused brain researchers to completely revise their ideas about the brain's marvelous capabilities for change through "nutritional neuroscience."

In this book you will learn how you can mold your brain to optimize memory, intelligence, mental achievement, and mood by eating the right foods and taking specific brain boosting supplements; from common vitamin E to alpha lipoic acid, ginkgo biloba, and Co-Enzyme Q10.

Your Miracle Brain reports breakthrough research from leading scientific centers the National Institutes of Health, Harvard, Tufts, the University of California and others from around the world proving how diet and supplements can create peak brain power throughout life from boosting the capabilities of young brains to preventing and reversing brain breakdown as we get older.

You will discover astounding information and inspiring advice on every page: How to raise your child's IQ before he or she is even born; which fat stunts brain cells, and which make you smarter and happier; which vitamins can boost intelligence and memory; how high blood pressure can shrink your brain and what foods to eat to sharpen memory and rejuvenate brain cells.

Nothing is more central to a successful and fulfilling life than an optimally functioning brain. In Your Miracle Brain Jean Carper reveals the nutritional secrets that can unlock your brain's full intellectual and emotional potential.

SYNOPSIS

The #1 New York Times--bestselling author of Miracle Cures, Food--Your Miracle Medicine, and Stop Aging Now! reveals cutting-edge nutritional secrets for achieving peak brain performance.

One of the country's leading authorities on health and nutrition reports on exciting new scientific discoveries showing how you can change the structure and wiring of your brain for maximum achievement and happiness at any age. Jean Carper bases Your Miracle Brain on a new recognition that the brain is not fixed and static, but infinitely growing and changing, as dictated by what it is fed and how it is treated. Everyone is responsible for his or her own brain in ways never before thought possible.

Filled with the most up-to-date information and advice, Your Miracle Brain explains how the right diet and supplements can:
Maximize brain power
Lift moods
Sharpen memory
Increase creativity and intelligence, and
Protect the brain from aging.

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Library Journal

Yes, you can change your brain, and it doesn't take surgery. Carper, the author of best sellers like Miracle Cures, explains how nutrition can do the trick. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

A winner! This book is a virtual wealth of information on nutritional strategies used to optimize brain function and behavior. (Lester Packer, Ph.D., Professor Of Molecular And Cell Biology, University Of California At Berkeley)  — Lester Packer