Monday, January 16, 2006

I took a few days off which is why there has not been any new blog posts in a while.
Here is a new article that recently appeared in Red Orbit from journalist Nigel Rosser entitled:" Diet Alert on Mental Health"



CHANGES to our diets over the last fifty years has been linked to the Britain's rising mental health problems.

Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects brain function and structure, according to the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain, which campaigns for better food and farming.

Their report today, Feeding Minds, says that changes in food production have cut essential fats, vitamins and minerals. Intake of omega-3 fatty acids has fallen but intake of omega-6 fatty acids is up. Research links this with concentration and memory problems and depression.

The charities are urging the Government to increase support for measures to ensure people have access to nutritious foods.

Editors Note: This is exactly what Dr. Barry Sears, the inventor of the Zone Diet has said. He stated that your Diet effects
your hormones, such as insulin, which then effects your mood and that for many people food is the biggest drug of them all.

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