Eat your way to happiness!

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Ben
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!

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Hi alan,
alan wrote:Ok then, back to subject.
The link between diet and mental health has been proven so many times that I have wonder why it is even reported as "news".
I've been actively involved in the skillful integration of diet and exercise for many years. Happy to share with those willing to listen.
Sure. People eat poorly as the result of poor mental health. That link of mental health conditioning diet has been reported on before and is not new news.

However, does changing your diet (and only changing your diet) improve mental health? If we were to remove all the othr variables such as exercise, sleep patterns, drug and alcohol consumption, stress, etc & etc and just looked at the role of diet, would we find a clear and decisive link that a better diet improves mental health?

While I am sure there are great anecdotes that support this proposition I don't think there has been a serious study into it yet.
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!

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Oh God Yes it does!
Why would anyone think otherwise?
Sorry, Maybe it's because I've been so immersed in the healthy-living healthy-body healthy-mind word for so long that I'm amazed at those who haven't been practicing--it strikes as odd that anyone would deny the connection. There is a lot of disinformation out there: I see now that I am going against the grain. I don't want to turn this into a debate society--I'll just say I'm convinced that diet has an enormous influence on mental and physical health. As sure as the world is round.
And I'll be happy to assist anyone with an open mind who wants to learn.
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Re: Eat your way to happiness!

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No doubt Alan, there are some fantastic health benefits from making lifestyle changes and they can all make you feel good which can increase mundane happiness. I don't think I (or anyone else) was denying the potential positive effects of diet on mental health. Perhaps what I am trying to get at is I think it would be good to quantify the actual benefit from dietary change. I think that knowledge would be very beneficial.
kind regards

Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Re: Eat your way to happiness!

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Best way to quantify it is to try it. If anyone is listening, I'd suggest getting off soda as a vital first step.
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