Food and Mood

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a human tendency to feel irritable if the body goes too long without eating. But Dr. Felice Jacka’s research indicates our relationship with food is much deeper. Dr. Jacka is the author of</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.ca/Brain-Changer-Good-Mental-Health-ebook/dp/B07K9LZPNL"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brain Changer: The Good Mental Health Diet</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and a psychiatric epidemiologist from Australia’s Deakin University, where she runs the</span> <a href= "https://foodandmoodcentre.com.au/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Food and Mood Centre</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. And she’s almost single-handedly created one of the hottest fields in wellness today: the area of nutritional psychiatry, which suggests that our food choices may be able to lift the symptoms of depression, as well as other mental illnesses.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shaun Francis is</span> <a href= "http://www.medcan.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Medcan</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">’s CEO and chair. Follow him on Twitter</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaunCFrancis"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@shauncfrancis</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Connect with him on</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shauncfrancis/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">LinkedIn</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. And follow him on Instagram</span> <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/shauncfrancis/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@shauncfrancis</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Visit the Eat Move Think</span> <a href= "http://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Eat Move Think is produced in conjunction with</span> <a href="http://www.ghostbureau.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ghost Bureau</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>