Category: Mental Health and Nutrition
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Dietary Intake, Dietary Habits, and Mental Wellbeing
Dietary Intake, Dietary Habits, and Mental Wellbeing Food, our dietary habits, and our dietary intake, affect our mental wellbeing. Let’s explore further. How Does Food Affect Our Mental Wellbeing? The relationship between food and mental wellbeing is not unidirectional. Food intake affects mental wellbeing and mental wellbeing affects food intake. Recall a day when you… Read more
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Nutrition and Mental Health: Part IV
Psychotropic (Psychiatric) Medications I want to preface by emphasizing the importance of psychotropic medications in symptom management. Medications to treat mental health symptoms can be life savers, literally. PLEASE DO NOT STOP TAKING YOUR PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS. ALWAYS CONSULT WITH YOUR PRESCRIBER. Psychotropic Medications And Nutrition Psychotropic medications are prescribed to help with certain mental health… Read more
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Nutrition and Mental Health: Part III
Nutrition and Mental Health: Part III I did not anticipate discussing the intersection of medications, nutrition, and mental health. The recent headlines, both in professional venues and in the public media, prompted me to include this subject as it seems topical for our world. A recent study has led to news reports touting the “benefits”… Read more
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Nutrition and Mental Health: Part II
“Diets” There are multiple “diets” promoted for healthy living which recommend certain food groups over other food groups, the grapefruit diet being just one example. These are often meant as short-term interventions in the pursuit of lowering weight; decreasing body mass index; removing “toxins” from the body; creating a sleek physique. Short-term lifestyle changes do… Read more