Food and Mental Health

By Siew Ling Seah

This book, which I am about to publish, is titled Food and Mental Health Guide. I feel that the time is now right for food to become the mainstream component of mental health care. We study the brain of mentally ill people and discover that mental illness is also related to our diet. What we eat ultimately affects different parts of our brain, and a different diet can actually help to cure mental illness.

Researchers today conclude that eating well is somehow related to lower anxiety levels, less depression, less mood swings, fewer cravings and eating problems such as binge eating and bulimia, reductions in premenstrual tension, and less fatigue.

In this article, I also show the readers what each type of food can do. For example, food rich in iron can help prevent anemia, which can cause not only fatigue and apathy but also a depressed mood.

The reason I wrote this book is because numerous evidence has linked diet with mental health, and this is growing at a rapid pace. I hope my readers will enjoy reading this book as well as learn something from this manuscript.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781482879773

Siew Ling Seah

I am a health-care administrator in the mental health sector. For three years, I have worked with the mentally ill people, helping them to rehabilitate back to society during my period of employment. I have a bachelor of science in business administration and an MBA in business administration. While working in the rehabilitative centre for the mentally ill, I took up a PhD in health care management and graduated with distinction. This was when I decided to write this book. But, unfortunately, due to lack of funding, I didn’t get this book, Food and Mental Health, published. Now, with the help of Partridge Publishing Singapore’s installment payment plan, I finally decided to get my book published. I hope my readers will enjoy reading it.

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Copyright © 2016 Siew Ling Seah. All rights reserved.

ISBN

978-1-4828-7976-6 (sc)

978-1-4828-7977-3 (e)

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Contents

Introduction

The Role Of Food In Relation To Mental Health

Medication

The Role Of Diet In Relation To Specific Mental Health Problems

Depression

Schizophrenia

Alzheimer’s Disease

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd)

Mental Hospitals’ Menu

Conclusion

4.6 References

INTRODUCTION

The time is now right for food to become a mainstream component of mental health care.

According to Dr. Andrew McCulloch (Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation), we invest our time in learning what is nutrition in relation to mental health. Well, before we begin we would like you to know that the