The Link Between Food and Your Mood
The relationship between food and feelings is much like the one you enjoy with your mother-in-law: difficult to figure out. Besides the fact that your mood is influenced by everything from sunlight to your monthly cycle, nutrition science relies heavily on observational studies rather than the gold-standard randomised controlled trial.
Researchers can you ate an apple). Factor in people’s associations of food with pleasure or aversion (Gran’s apple pie vs. sad school lunches), and the topic is even harder to unravel.
