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Eating the right foods can improve mental health, new research suggests. Cutting down on food "stressors" and increasing the amount of food "supporters" has a beneficial effect on mood.
Stressors include dairy products, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, and saturated fat. Supporters are water, vegetables, fruits, protein, oil-rich fish, nuts and seeds, fiber and organic foods.
The Food and Mood Project--based in East Sussex, UK, and backed by the mental-health charity Mind--presented survey findings to a conference in London on September 18, 2002. The survey of 200 people found that 88 percent report that changing their diets improved their mental health significantly. ...