Feed Your Mind

Brain Food..

Eat healthy food and have a healthy body. we have known this for a long time. Eat fruit and vegetables and stay physically healthy. However, we now know that there is also healthy food for your brain. Eat healthy food and have a healthy mind. This is not perhaps a surprise. After all, we all know how chocolate can change our mood. However, new research clearly shows the link between diet and mental health.

For a few years, there has been a campaign to improve school meals in the UK. Danial Brown is the head teacher of a school that banned junk food and started serving healthy food in 2006. 'Our research shows that, since 2006,the children's behaviour in class has been a lot better, They are now calmer and they concentrate more. As a result, they are learning more'.

The UK Mental Health Foundation has started a campaign Feeding Minds to publicise its own research. John Powell has been a psychologist for thirty years. 'This research shows that our diets have changed a lot, and the level of mental illness has increased. Now, I always consider my patients' diets, especially when they complain of depression and insomnia.

 The final piece of research concerns the Mediterranean diet. Sines 1950, scientists have known that this diet (fruit, vegetables, fish, olive oil and red wine) helps you live longer. Since 2006, they have known that it also prevents Alzheimer's disease, a serious mental illness that affects the elderly, and they are now telling the world about this important discovery.

So, what does all this research suggest you eat? To improve your memory, eat salmon. To improve your concentration, eat vegetables. To fight insomnia, eat nuts. If depression is a problem, eat brown rice. If you worry about your late years, cook with olive oil. whatever you do use your brain and shop for your mental health.