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About this book
This handbook explains the science behind nutrition and its effects on mental health, in a clear, accessible way. It helps readers to think about the complex and dynamic relationship between mental health, diet and nutrition. It explores how mental health and mental illness related factors, dietary factors and other social, biological and environmental factors interact to affect mental well-being. Leading health practitioners have contributed their own valuable insights, experiences and nutritional strategies to create an informed, up-to-date and fully referenced resource.
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0Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editor’s foreword
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Modern diets: a recipe for madness
- Chapter 2: Mental health and mineral depletion
- Chapter 3: The influence of chemical additives on children’s behaviour
- Chapter 4: The effect of mercury on the body and brain
- Chapter 5: Resolving depression: the role of the gut in taming inflammation
- Chapter 6: Omega-3 fatty acids for behaviour, learning and mood
- Chapter 7: Gut and psychology syndrome (GAP syndrome or GAPS)™
- Chapter 8: Duncan’s story: a case history of institutional discrimination in the NHS
- Chapter 9: Orthomolecular medicine for schizophrenia
- Chapter 10: The effect of food intolerance and allergy on mood and behaviour
- Chapter 11: Blood sugar blues
- Chapter 12: Nutritional approaches to the management of eating disorders and eating distress
- Chapter 13: Eat yourself happy – nutritional therapy in practice
- Editor’s Summary: Twenty strategies to support a healthy mind
- Glossary