This week at Mental Health Notes, I recommended checking out John La Puma and the book he wrote with Rebecca Powell Marx, Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, as well as I Dose, which claims to be “the perfect Binaural Beats experience.” I also introduced you to Frank Calloway and the Cover America Tour, and then asked you what you thought about Barack Obama’s stance on mental health parity and to share good stories about mental health.
In the world of mental health news, UC Irvine researchers may be quickening the pace to finding more effective medications to treat …read more

Back in June, I entered a giveaway at Hope Wilbanks’s Weighting Line and won a copy of Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine by John La Puma, M.D. and Rebecca Powell Marx. (I also won some chewing gum from Extra thanks to my random knowledge about The Biggest Loser, but, I digress.)
I initially entered the giveaway thinking that if I won I’d give my copy of the book to a certain family member who’s trying desperately to eat better for both health and weight loss reasons. I figured she could really use the book because it probably wouldn’t have …read more