Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being

I honestly believe if we all read and incorporate the ideas in this book, the obesity and chronic disease epidemics would fade away. I just loved this book, you think it's going to be about nutrition, but it's literally not about "nutrition" at all, and all about the importance of self love and self acceptance. It is slightly dated, as we are learning that dietary cholesterol doesn't translate to serum cholesterol (eat your eggs!), saturated fat isn't always the bad guy (grass fed, grass finished fat vs fats in baked goods), and macrobiotic diets have fallen out of popularity, so be mindful to fact check if you do want to embrace his nutritional recommendations. I loved how he related our emotional attachment to food to our very first experiences of love and how the ego is a key player in how we use food to try to reconcile our inner struggles and need for belonging. He focused on the need to remove shame from all experiences with food. If you're going to eat ice cream, just go with it, with all your heart and not an ounce of resistance, for when you judge yourself, you'll only want to further numb the pain you feel, and that will likely be with more food. I am designing a nutrition course and this book will be an absolute imperative part of the material I teach. If you can embrace the spiritual side of eating, the mindset of nonresistance and curiosity, and combine these with sound nutrition science, you have a "diet" that can sustain you for life.

This book is perfect for anyone serious about learning the mind and body connection with food. The author educates with insight and humor about how and why our eating habits control our lives and vice versa. The spiritual and psychological insights espoused are pitch perfect and should be taught to all children! Stop dieting! Learn who you are and why you eat what you do. This book will show you ways to improve your entire well-being with awareness.

I am very glad I read this book and feel that I have taken away a lot of valuable insight from it. I wish I had read this book years ago. I have been fighting with my weight all my life.Now I have finally stopped the crazy ups and downs and yoyo dieting and I am friends with my body and with my food, for the first time in my life.This book has a different approach than you've probably encountered before, but if you read it and give it some thought, I think you'll conclude that it most definitely makes sense.

I found his book very helpful since it focuses on examining some of the spiritual basis for having a good relationship with food. Because of allergies that I knew nothing of and emotional reactions that affected my body functioning related to my childhood trauma, I developed a dictatorial relation to my body insisting that it would do what I willed it to do and adjusted my food intake to foods that allowed me to not feel victimized and powerless by my body reactions to life experiences. This book has helped me to make needed changes in attitudes toward my body and food because I have met and succeeded in conquering challenges in life that increased my self image and self esteem. I needed to live in the present and to have some framework in which to make the change to communicating with my body - listening to how my body feels about foods, tastes, etc. This book and his other book The Slow Down Diet have done this and I am very grateful for this Nourishing Wisdom.

I am about halfway through this book and REALLY appreciate the spiritual and thought provoking style it is written in. For those of us who struggle with being friends with food-this is a must read. Whether you have a "weight issue" or not. Heck-I think it should be a required reading for any high schooler or parent! for that matter! It is spiritually broad, and well put together.

It has been a while since I have read a book that felt so satisfying. Marc David puts nutrition in a holistic context that at once seems obvious yet is so deeply revealing about our psyches, individually and collectively. For someone like myself with a lifelong interest in food, nutrition, health and spirituality, he captures perfectly so many of the fleeting connections that I could sense but never formulate in words. Highly recommended reading for anyone who eats.

As a health coach, the emotional and psychological piece comes in with every single client and Marc David's book is an essential tool in my toolkit. I recommend it to many clients and they have unbelievable breakthroughs reading his book. We all go through so many of the same emotions around food, particularly when we punish ourselves, and Nourishing Wisdom clarifies why we do this and offers recommendations for overcoming it. I can't recommend this book enough! I've read it multiple times and have different epiphanies each time.

This book covers things I'd heard before and things I had not heard before. Marc David presents these ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand and they become tools for deeper insight. I feel this and his other book, The Slow Down Diet, is helping me make lasting changes in my life.

Honestly a real disappointment. Nothing new or interesting, a bunch of already well-known ideas about the relationship between mind and nourishment. Save yourself the time and money.

Good knowledge book on nutrition

I was looking for a book to help me figure out my thought process when it comes to overeating, and I found it! This book talks about how the mind fights against itself, and about breaking negative habits by transforming them into positive ones. It feels like such a relief to read his points in this book, as so many are exactly what I've been experiencing but couldn't quite put my finger on. I think understanding the psychology behind my relationship with food is absolutely the key to change it, and I am not only reading this book, I am studying it. So glad I found this book.

This book has been on my amazon wish list for over five years but always left to go to the back because other more promising titles came along in my search for having a happier, healthier lifestyle.Wish I'd picked it up before The First 20 Minutes, Clean, Brainmaker, Practical Paleo and a host of others began taking up space on my shelves. That's not to say that any of those other titles aren't also worth getting because they all are but, this book without any pictures gets us thinking about food slightly differently to how we have done up until now.It's a reminder to slow up, sit down and enjoy life once in a while if we want our bodies to get out of a perpetual survival mode where food doesn't get properly digested and the body stores fat (just in case).

Marc David has a unique holistic approach.This kind of view is free of judgement, very informative.This book brings Light into all the Chaos that is out there.