Lifestyle: How To Eat Your Way To Better Mental Health

Unprocessed: How The Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis, the new book by Dr Kimberley Wilson, is a lot to, well, digest. Its author is a chartered psychologist with a master’s in nutrition (and a 2013 finalist on The Great British Bake-Off). And here, Wilson contends that diet is “a central yet overlooked and ignored underlying factor” in spiralling mental illness rates and our “increased neurological vulnerability”. Not just for thought, then, food impacts mood and behaviour, your brain’s very structure, even the speed that it ages. But four centuries on from philosopher Mr René Descartes’ dualistic distinction between physical and mental, we still think mind and body separate, therefore we are, as Wilson writes, “eating our way to Alzheimer’s”.

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