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Feeding Minds
The Mental Health Foundation launched its food and mental health campaign on Monday 16th January 2006.
Research we have done with Sustain shows how the composition of our food has changed due to intensive farming and modern food production techniques.
It also shows that eating patterns and the way we prepare our meals has changed. This means that many people now eat a diet which is deficient in certain key nutrients that are essential to healthy brain function.
Feeding Minds considers the evidence linking diet to depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer?s and ADHD in particular. There is much research still to be done to establish direct links between what we eat and the causes (or treatment) of these diseases, but the evidence that does exist suggests a strong correlation between them.
Given the increasing economic burden of mental ill-health, the Foundation is campaigning for more research to be conducted into the links between diet and mental health. Feeding Minds contains a number of specific recommendations to key stakeholders concerned with food production and manufacture, to those responsible for the provision of food, to schools and hospitals, and to national and local government.
As part of the campaign, we have created a web guide to nutrition, an online petition calling for changes to the way our food is produced and a series of recipes using ingredients which contain nutrients linked to mental health.
Visit www.mentalhealth.org.uk
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