An Optimum Diet for Mood Stability and Long-Term Good Health   #notjustbipolar

Quinonostante:Excellent article! I for one would like to see more of these evidence based studies presented to a Government who feel medication is the only way to treat mental ill health. Originally posted on Rethinking Bipolar: Real Food: The Best Diet - Andrew Weil, M.D. explains what to eat and drink more and less of: (This talk is largely about USA diet. USA has the highest incidence of bipolar and many other modern disorders. Elsewhere in the world we need to learn from America’s mistakes.) Can there really be an optimum diet? It perhaps depends on what we mean by optimum (or maybe it is optimal?). If optimum diet means the best diet we can work out for ourselves, and a diet we can stick with, to keep us healthy then, yes, it just takes a while to figure out what is good for us. Why did I start searching for my optimum diet? Stress caused indigestion, such that I could not sleep and this led to a psychiatric admission where I was heavily sedated, and started to rapidly gain weight. I reacted badly… View original 879 more wordsFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
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