There is a strong connection between nutrition and mental health. While people easily understand the connection between nutritional deficiencies and physical illness, the connection between nutritional deficiencies and mental illness is at times still somewhat of a mystery. Mental health is more typically thought of as strictly biochemically-based or emotionally-rooted. On the contrary, nutrition can play a key role in the onset as well as the severity and duration of symptoms. It is through diet, nutrition, and spirituality helps in the healing of the whole body that allows us to live a healthy lifestyle, the one that Hippocrates (c.460 - 400 BC) had intended for us to live by, "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
- | Author: Cristina Guarneri, N.D., Ed.D., M.N.
- | Publisher: Lulu.Com
- | Publication Date: Jan 05, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 196 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0359337244
- | ISBN-13: 9780359337248
