Book review: The Food and Mood Handbook

The Food and Mood Handbook by Amanda Greary was one of my first introductions into the area of food and mood and in learning about exactly how much diet can impact on your mental health. As someone who used to suffer terribly with PMT, finding anything that might relieve my symptoms was an ongoing task for me – and I know diet has a huge effect on premenstrual problems, especially mine!

Greary’s book is an excellent manual in learning how to eat a nutritious diet that can help relieve mental health symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and generalised mood swings. She herself had struggled for many years with severe depression and mental health problems, and after years of medication, it was only when her diet changed that her depression was finally dealt with. So Greary wrote this book, after training to become a nutritionist, in order to provide a guide on good mood foods.