Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

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Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

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This course has now passed, but you can be the first to know about the next one - and other workshops like this - by signing up to our newsletter here. A powerful book that breaks down the dangerous beliefs that food is just fuel and delivers an important message we can all get behind... the evidence Kimberley presents in this book will change lives and hopefully policy' - Professor Tim Spector Seaweed is a concentrated source of iodine. The British Dietetic Association recommends not eating brown seaweed more than once a week, especially during pregnancy. Childhood

I recently read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief and though I was not recently bereaved, when I closed the book I promptly burst into tears. She portrays the rawness, the frayed edges and bewilderment of grief so perfectly that it felt like those moments in therapy when the interpretation hits just right. What was the last book that made you laugh?For readers who may be more politically engaged, ‘Unprocessed’ also throws down a challenge to hold those in power accountable for their role in safeguarding public health in an area of life that is frequently overlooked. Wilson clearly wants her readers to take action in response to her arguments. The question is: will you? 6am Book Club discussion questions: Anyone with an interest in how the brain works, and who wants to invest in their long-term brain health

Unprocessed is a book on nutrition, like many others before it. What sets this one apart though is an (at times unbalanced) focus on diet during pregnancy, reducing violence in prisons through supplementation, or giving out correct dietary guidelines from the - in this case UK - government. Elsewhere, Wilson considers whether there is a relationship between poor nutrition and school exclusion and then lays out the evidence for this hypothesis. The topic of behaviour in schools has featured quite prominently in both the news and social media of late. Regrettably, the topic has become polarised within the latter online environment. However, Wilson’s arguments around the correlation between diet and behaviour are compelling and present a challenge to those with ‘behaviourist’ views of discipline to consider a more complex and nuanced perspective of behaviour in schools. Coffee: Take action. Burleigh, C. R., Lynn, R., Verity, C., Winstone, A. M., White, S. R., & Johnson, K. (2023). Fetal alcohol syndrom in the UK. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108(10), 852-856. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325571 Eat more beans. Believe me, they’re the answer to most of your, and the planet’s, most pressing problems. You can’t have good mental health without a well-functioning brain, and you can’t have a well-functioning brain without good nutrition.In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new research - as well as her own work in prisons, schools and hospitals around the country - to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby's brain, and hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality. One way that she deconstructs this behavioural tension between short and long term decisions is by adopting a lifespan perspective. This perspective extends from the prenatal phase of life by exploring the need for (and the barriers to achieving) good pre-natal nutrition to old age, where she considers the relationship between diet and the increasing prevalence of dementia. The emerging consensus is that the higher the inflammatory potential of a person’s diet, the worse their brain function will tend to be,” she writes. “A large prospective study, which followed over 26,000 people for an average of five years, found that those with a more pro-inflammatory diet had a greater risk of developing depression.” Eat yourself happy The high-profile SMILEs trial (“supporting the modification of lifestyle in lowered emotional states”) published in 2017 found that, among a group of 67 people with depression and a poor diet, those who switched to a Mediterranean-style diet were four times more likely to recover and also experienced reduced anxiety symptoms. People don’t tend to give me advice. I come across, almost certainly, as a bit of a know it all. But I do appreciate it. Once, someone told me I always had my shoulders up, and a manicurist moisturising my hand once said: “You don’t know how to relax.” These things helped me realise how tightly wound I was.



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