Mental Health and Nutrition: An Alternative to Medication

Nutritional Psychiatry says that your brain can heal from mental illness through food.

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Chinese New year

It's Chinese New year

We all get together

To celebrate family

One day of every year

My parents have made it very clear

I don't need medication - now, I am all ears

They say (and there is support for this)

That food is your medicine or poison

I'm currently studying the effects of what I consume, in what proportion

Eating junk food inflames the brain

So maybe therein lies the fault and blame

I have not been taking good care of myself

It's no wonder then, that I am in such poor health

(Excerpted from my new book Nutrional Psychiatry: Food as your Brain's medicine) Buy the book here.

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