What Is Nutritional Psychiatry? For Starters, It’s Delicious
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How to eat for a better mood, according to the experts.
It had been a dark winter. Not early-sunset, cozy-sweater dark. I mean the black hole variety. I spent much of this December and January trapped in an emotional vortex, shuffling around in sweats (“athleisure” is too generous), crying at random, and snapping at my spouse. I baked cookies. I made pasta. Both helped, but only temporarily. In other words, I—like an outsize proportion of Americans—felt depressed.
On a frigid, blank-skied afternoon in mid-February, I forced myself on a walk. When I passed the local library, I noticed a book, This Is Your Brain on Food, in the window. The book was all about the connection between food and mood, written by nutritional psychiatrist and trained chef Uma Naidoo, M.D., who directs the Department of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. I headed inside, stepped up to the plexiglass-encased librarian, and borrowed the book.
In truth, the book confirmed what I already suspected: a carb-heavy diet was making me sad and sluggish. […]
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