Category Archives: High Quality Diet

Dietary Guidance For Depressed Individuals?

Evidence suggests that oxidative stress and inflammation are major causes of depression and anxiety. There are a number of factors that can contribute to the development of oxidative stress and inflammation, but poor diet and stress have been identified as … Continue reading

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High Quality Diets to Treat Depression

Evidence suggests that a high quality diet is an important factor in preventing mental illness. In particular, a high quality diet has been shown to prevent the formation of depression and anxiety, and may be a useful treatment once these … Continue reading

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Dietary Acid Load and Mental Health

Diet has been evidenced to play a crucial role in protection from mood disorders. Dietary acid load refers to the amount of food contained in the diet that can result in the production of acids upon metabolism, and generally this … Continue reading

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What Can You Expect From Better Nutrition?

Only a small number of people go through the experience of better health from improved nutrition. The vast majority of individuals in the Western world continue to consume the Western diet throughout their lives, and these people experience a slow … Continue reading

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How Easy Is It To Overeat Healthy Food?

Evidence suggests that it is relatively easy to overeat processed foods that are high in sugar and fat because they act as drugs in the brain. Such food, which includes most junk and fast foods, are able to activate similar … Continue reading

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It’s Not What You Eat, It’s What You Don’t Eat

It is never a good idea to eat unhealthy foods. Cumulatively they can cause disease and lead to significant reductions in quality of life. However, there is a theory that that healthy food can protect from the damage inflicted by … Continue reading

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Why Do People Find It Hard To Follow A High Quality Diet

Many people wish to follow a healthy high quality diet. Many people start such a diet with the best of intentions. However, very few manage to remain on such a diet for long and soon return to their bad eating … Continue reading

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Lucky Dip To Bad Health: Processed and Packaged Foods

One of the main problems with the consumption of processed, packaged, and preprepared foods is that often, you are not sure exactly what you are eating. When you rely on others to prepare your food, there can be the addition … Continue reading

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A Fixation On Calories

Many individuals are fixated with the energy (calorie) content of foods. Often this fixation results from a desire to lose weight. Many diet companies take advantage of this energy fixation, and offer a range of low energy foods to the … Continue reading

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Can You Overeat High Quality Food?

One problem encountered by those who wish to lose weight is that they cannot stop overeating. This is based on the assumption that to lose weight, an individual must eat less. However, this premise is erroneous. Firstly, low quality food, … Continue reading

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