The role of diet and nutrition on mental health and wellbeing

This short 2020 article sought to analyse the complex relationship between food and mental health, answering questions on carbohydrates, dietary patterns, and bacteria in the gut, and explaining how these factors could be affecting our mood and depressive tendencies. Firth et al. (2020) state that healthy eating patterns such as the Mediterranean Diet are associated […]

This 2014 article describes the complex nature of food consumption and its link with mood and brain signalling, while also touching on the sensations of reward and gratification associated with eating certain foods — the dangerous sequence of biological events that overrides an individual’s satiety and hunger signals. This constant search for dopamine, the chemical […]