Saturday 27 December 2014

Food Matters

I used to wonder if it really mattered what we ate but I now know from personal experience that it does matter, because changing my diet put an end to my migraines and gave me so much more energy as well!

What goes on on the inside matters.  The food we choose to eat does matter!

Here's another reason why food matters . . .

In this fifteen minute YouTube clip, Dr Drew Ramsey MD, Psychiatrist, explains that the "foods" we are eating in our modern (he says American diet but it's much the same in all Western cultures) "Western Diet" that are highly processed, full of refined carbohydrates, refined sugars, the wrong fats, artificial colours and chemicals, are shrinking our brains and this is contributing to escalating rates of depression.  Dr Ramsey goes on to explain what the solution is.

Together with Tyler Graham, a Nutritionist, Dr Ramsey has written a book called

The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood, and Lean, Energised  Body 

A bit of a corny title, but there's nothing corny about the message.  This book discusses the history of the industrialisation of food production which has changed our foods so much over the last 100 years, and explains one by one all of the essential nutrients needed for our brain to function the way it was designed to, listing top food sources for each. 

Scattered throughout the book in the margins are the top 100 reasons to avoid processed foods.

Here's just a few:

43. Most processed foods contain at least one - if not several - soy-derived ingredient.  While considered to be healthy, consumption of soya products is associated with cognitive decline and brain atrophy.

50. Low fat, highly processed dairy products get stripped of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a fat that fights cancer and prevents abdominal fat deposits.

51. A McDonald's Happy Meal purchased by Sally Davies, a New York based artist, showed no signs of decomposition after six months.

Valuable information if you care about your health.  This book is definitely worth a read.

The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood, and Lean, Energised  Body is not currently available as an ebook but the paperback can be ordered online from Amazon or the QBD online bookshop.




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