Food And Mental Health

I have been reading a number of articles on how food, and supplements, may play a bigger part in our mental health than we ever imagined. Yet, it one thinks about it for a while, it makes excellent sense.

For example, say you have two people, with whom most of their habits are the same, aside from what they eat. Person 1 usually doesn't eat breakfast, eats a donut at 10am, and for lunch eats a cheeseburger, fries, and a soda. He doesn't eat anything else for six hours and for dinner eats fried chicken, fried onion rings, mashed potatoes with gravy, a few rolls, and a soda. Then he finishes it off with a big piece of chocolate cake. And let's say the person eats this way most of the time.

Person 2, without going into specifics, eats lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, lean chicken, nuts, seeds, extra-virgin olive oil, and drinks lots of water.

It would be hard to argue that after one year these two people's bodies and brains would be similar. Their energy levels and demeanors, I would suggest, would no doubt be different--maybe greatly so.

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