Depression: Your brain on sugar

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'You've no doubt seen the television ads warning "this is your brain on drugs". These public service announcements are designed to be visually shocking thereby discouraging youth drug abuse by comparing the brain to an egg and a fried egg in a pan to a brain on drugs. 

The same can be said about the effects of sugar on the brain. In the case of sugar, however, the effects are marked by a high risk of long term mental illness like depression rather than a brief yet dangerous, drug induced high. 

Depression is at epidemic proportions in our modern society. Even children are not immune with some estimates putting 1 in every 8 teenagers as clinically depressed.'


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Study: Junk Food Linked With Increased Depression Risk

'A new study shows that junk food may have effects beyond expanding your waistline and upping your sodium levels - it might also be sabotaging your mental health. A new study in the journal Public Health Nutrition shows that regularly eating commercial baked goods - including doughnuts and croissants - as well as fast food - pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs - is linked with an increased depression risk.' 

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Can Mood, Sleep and Attention Disorders Be Conquered With Nutrition

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10 Ways to Beat the Post-Holiday Blues

 

'When that last drop of New Year’s Eve champagne is gone and the Christmas ornaments are packed away, many people enter a state of post-holiday blues. The anticipation and planning that begins with Halloween ends when you open your eyes on the second day of January. It’s winter; the parties are over and it’s back to the daily grind. But you can beat the post-holiday blues.'

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Mind Control: How Your Body Can Automatically Improve Depression

'CAN YOUR BODY AFFECT  your mind?

By making different food and lifestyle choices, can you rid yourself of depression, boost your mood or even improve more serious conditions such as ADHD, autism and more?
In my experience, the answer is YES and I’ll show you precisely how in just a second. But first, let me tell you about one of my patients, Sarah.'


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These Foods and Nutritional Deficiencies Can Make You Depressed or Violent

by Dr. Mercola

'The Gut-Brain Connection 'When you consider the fact that the gut-brain connection is recognized as a basic tenet of physiology and medicine, and that there's no shortage of evidence of gastrointestinal involvement in a variety of neurological diseases, it's hard to fathom why diet is still so widely ignored by the mental health field. 

In a very real sense, you have two brains, one inside your skull and one in your gut. These two organs actually originate from the same type of tissue during fetal development. One part turns into your central nervous system, while the other develops into your enteric nervous system. These two systems are connected via the vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve that runs from your brain stem down to your abdomen. 

This is what connects your two brains together, and explains such phenomena as getting butterflies in your stomach when you're nervous, for example. They work in tandem, each influencing the other. And this is why your intestinal health can have such a profound influence on your mental health, and vice versa.' 

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