Food and Feelings
Food and Feelings: Nutrition and Mental Health
Duane Law
Not all that long ago, the conventional wisdom was that nutrition had little to do with mental illness. Folks spending too much money in the vitamin aisle or eating organic were health nuts. Teachers and parents who swore they saw candy producing hyperactivity in their kids had only their day-to-day experience—anecdotal evidence—to back them up. Careful research couldn’t find any link. The conventional wisdom dismissed other nutritional approaches to behaviour as well. Doctors counselling allergy treatment for ADHD were quacks. Others suggesting nutrient doses wildly in excess of daily value (DV) levels for some pathologies were ridiculed.
Not any more…
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