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Diet and Mental Health

Ketogenic Diet | can it help patients with Mental Health Disorders?

Mental Health | For more than 50 years, researchers have examined the effect of a ketogenic diet on patients with behavioral health disorders. 

 
Despite this breadth of research, most of the studies have lacked depth, consisting mostly of case reports, animal studies, and small-sample open studies rather than controlled trials.
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Mental Health | Supplements and Nonprescription Drugs, FDA warns

Mental Health Update | Beware of Imported Supplements and Nonprescription Drugs, Warns FDA.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety alert to consumers regarding imported products marketed as dietary supplements and non-prescription drug products, often sold at ethnic or international stores, flea markets, swap meets, or online.

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Diet and Mental Health | More information, reasons to be in the know

Mental Health and your Diet | how the two are interrelated.  hint:  The body works only as well as what you feed it.  

Here, we take a look a bit deeper on cause / effect from a recent study:  
A new international collaboration published in  The Lancet Psychiatry is encouraging the fields of psychiatry and public health to recognize the relationships between diet quality, potential nutritional deficiencies, and mental health.
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