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Matter Over Mind or Mind Over Matter: Obesity Not Disease of Mid-Section, but Disease of the Brain

Posted on: Monday, 18 December 2006, 12:01 CST

Just in time for the holidays and those new year's resolutions comes "BrightFoods -- Discover the Surprising Link between Food and Learning, Memory, Mood and Performance," a comprehensive manual for understanding that child or adult compulsive eating and obesity, once believed to be a disease strictly of the body, is actually a disease of the brain. Written by Dr. James Cocores, co-founder of Psyche Nutritional Sciences, Inc. (PNSI), the book can be ordered now at www.BrightFoodsBooks.com.

Dr. Cocores explains, "Obesity is at an all-time high in our country and no one has yet to address the critical connection between feeding the brain and feeding the body, and how the chemistry of the mind affects physical needs. Once people realize that they may be addicted to certain carbs, fats, proteins, cheese, milk chocolate, salt and other unhealthy foods when eaten in excess, only then will they be able to understand why they can't eat just one potato chip. And only then will they truly be able to change their eating habits for the better."

Mark S. Gold, M.D., Professor and Chief of the Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, Community Health and Family Medicine Division of Addiction Medicine at the McKnight Brain Institute explains, "Substance Abuse Disorders, or addictions, have been thought to be the exclusive province of drugs of abuse, like cocaine or heroin. More recently, food has been considered a substance of abuse, with morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other consequences the result of a pathological attachment to food. What we eat causes profound changes in the brain. This book by Dr. Cocores is an easy-to-use guide to recovery from the disease of obesity -- a brain disease that causes shame and guilt and results in secondary diseases of the body and spirit of the patient."

For more information about Dr. James Cocores and BrightFoods, go to www.pnsi-inc.com or call 973-753-0240, ex. 110.

Source: Business Wire

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