PERSONALITY STRENGTH AND PSYCHOCHEMICAL ENERGY

by George Watson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 28, 1979

Nutritional biochemistry as horoscope, with researcher George Watson (Nutrition and Your Mind, 1972) offering the ""Psychochemical Odor Test"" to help you pinpoint your metabolic failings. ""Fast oxidizers,"" the most prolific of four malfunctioning psychochemical groups, supposedly pay for the accelerated rate at which they absorb blood sugar with such personality killers as low self-esteem, pessimism, lack of ambition, envy, and anxiety. After readers have whiffed mammalian-liver, dehydrated-cabbage-leaf, and other kinds of tablets (which will be available at health stores when the book comes out), and have carefully tabulated their olfactory reactions on Fast-Oxidizer and Slow-Oxidizer charts, special diets appropriate to one's malfunction may be followed to correct the imbalance. Watson even goes so far as to suggest--somewhat timorously--psychochemical self-diagnosis and six-month diet regulation before resorting to psychotherapy for a personality disturbance. Odiferous.

Pub Date: Nov. 28, 1979

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Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1979

Categories: NONFICTION