Dr. Uma's Blog
This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight: Conversation with Deepak Chopra & Uma Naidoo, MD. Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr Uma Nai- doo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food as medicine space.
It’s not just your feelings that can affect your gut – the relationship works in reverse, too, says Dr Uma Naidoo. One day, a patient came to Dr Uma Naidoo with a problem. The psychiatric medication he had been prescribed was making him gain weight.
We're not going to sugarcoat it: 2020 was a challenging year for mental and emotional well-being. "Mental health is the silent pandemic that is also happening right now," says Uma Naidoo, M.D., nutritional psychiatrist, chef, nutrition expert, and author of This Is Your Brain on Food.
Most of us understand the connection between nutrition and physical health or illness. But what about the link between diet and depression? Your diet may not directly cause an improvement in mood or a decrease in depressive symptoms.
2020 has been a year of unprecedented changes — including new rituals that bring joy into our everyday lives. Some are familiar old habits practiced ever since childhood. Others are new rituals we have embraced that are brightening our days.
Dining at home the past year has been a nationwide default, and if you are like us, most dishes are getting old. Add some new flavors to your culinary nights by picking up one of these books—all are finalists for the New England Cookbook Awards—The Readable Feast (thereadablefeast.com).
