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    GOOD MOOD FOOD

    Jul 03, 2022 4 minutes

    Imagine you served up last night’s dinner to a hunter-gatherer ancestor. Would they recognise it as food? If they did the same to you, would you be willing to take a bite? The modern-day diet has changed considerably in the last few decades, with much of it passing through a manufacturing plant, rather than just the farm gates. This increase in processed food consumption is among the many factors fuelling our rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but what effect is it having on our mental health? Is there a link between food and mood?

    Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre’s Dr Hajara Aslam and Dr Samantha Dawson,

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