Did you know that mental health conditions burden the Canadian economy every year at a cost of over $51 billion?
That’s one of the key findings in a paper published by Dietitians of Canada. “Promoting Mental Health through Healthy Eating and Nutritional Care” discusses the connection between nutrition and mental health and the role of dieticians in promoting that connection.
Researchers recently published an article in International Journal of Science and Research that recommended these 5 natural ways for dealing with sleep disorders.
Earlier this year, Australian researchers published a paper in The Lancet Psychiatry proposing that diet and nutrition are essential for mental health.
In fact, the paper says that as with other medical conditions, “psychiatry and public health should embrace diet and nutrition as key determinants of mental health.”
Last month, the American Psychiatric Association held their 168th annual meeting in Toronto. One of the symposia for the conference was Mineral-Vitamin Combinations as Primary Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms, which included 4 Ph.D. and M.D. researchers presenting on various aspects regarding micronutrient treatment and mental health.
Dr. Bonnie Kaplan and Dr. Julia Rucklidge, two of the presenters, wrote an article last week indicating that the 3-hour symposia saw about 175 people attending, 95% of which were clinical psychiatrists, a far cry from a similar symposia held in 2003.
To understand what makes EMPowerplus so effective for bipolar, depression, and other mood disorders, we must recognize the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies and the incidence of mental illness.
Could micronutrient deficiencies be affecting your mental health?
Despite efforts to eat a balanced diet with healthier food choices, most Americans—according to this USDA graph—don’t meet the recommended daily allowance for many essential micronutrients. This may be one reason why the incidence of mental illness and mood disorders, such as bipolar, continue to rise at an alarming rate.
Therese Borchard, associate editor at Pysch Central, recently wrote an article about the connection between food (or the lack of it) and depression. Specifically, she highlighted 10 nutritional deficiencies that may cause depression:
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Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, mental illness rates have risen rather than declined. Over the last decade, scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: what we eat affects our mental health.
In this talk at the University of Canterbury, mental health researcher Dr. Julia Rucklidge discusses the data that shows an alarming picture of food choices serving as risk factors to all kinds of psychiatric problems. She also introduces the recent paradigm shift of using nutrients to treat these challenges,
Last month, Canadian mental health researcher Bonnie Kaplan was interviewed for the Economic Times about the emerging field of nutritional psychiatry.
Nutritional psychiatry involves the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders using nutrients. Here are 6 things we learn about nutritional psychiatry from the interview.
A common statement we hear from our EMPowerplus critics is that Truehope vitamins are far too expensive and you can get the same vitamins at Walmart (or anywhere else that says generic multivitamins) for far less money.
Now, if all things were equal (production process, composition, etc), this argument of our detractors would be right: our micronutrient formulation would be more expensive.
Here are 6 reasons why all things aren’t equal.
Mental health researchers Bonnie Kaplan and Julia Rucklidge, who specialize in studying the connection between nutrition and mental health, recently wrote an article asking if we are finally at the tipping point—when an idea starts to become contagious—for nutrition and mental health.
Their writing comes on the heels of 4 recent articles exploring nutrition and mental health:
Earlier this week, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman publicly announced that 4 American retailers—GNC, Target, Walgreens, and Walmart—had been selling store-brand herbal supplements in New York that didn’t contain what was on the label or contained substances that weren’t on the label.