Your Brain on Food How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings

Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Does marijuana help to improve your memory in old age? In this book, Gary Wenk demonstrates how, as a result of their effects on certain neurotransmitters concerned with behavior, everything we put into our bodies has direct consequences for how we think, feel, and act. The chapters introduce each of the main neurotransmitters involved with behavior, discuss its role in the brain, and explain ways to influence it through what we consume.