If your like me your love eating the WRONG kinds of food. :smirk:
Well what kinds of foods do you think would be good for your mental health?
Generally speaking - foods that are closest to nature - that give your body nutrients instead of takes nutrients or gives bad things. Living things especially. Vegetables and fruits and grains/seeds that can germinate (sprout). Sprouts deserve a special emphasis - they are a powerhouse of nutrients because they contain all the vitamins, minerals and enzymes a plant needs to go from seed to plant. Vitamin and enzyme content is actually increased when sprouting seed. A person can rapidly increase their vitamin intake by eating sprouts even over the vegetables they eventually turn into - if eaten in similar quantities.
The foods that are good for your body overall are also good for mental health.
Good foods can be absolutely ruined though and become toxic over time to your body, because they cannot be used in the ruined state.
A great example of this is fried food and food that contains hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fat. The human body cannot use these fats or cannot use them effectively as they are a waste product. What's starts out as a good oil from a seed actually ends up as a toxic substance with the application of intense heat.
- As this thread is mentioning mental health, fat is an important relevant topic - because fat makes up the majority of the dry weight of your brain -
The dangers of heating otherwise healthy oils will always be downplayed by both the sellers of the oil and one of the main users - the fast food industry. This is mainly because fried food is cheap to make and very fast cooking.
If you are looking to improve your overall health and lose weight the first things to look at are the types of fats you consume and how much (and what kind) of sugar you consume. The types of fats are important - because they are not all equal. The saturated fat in an avocado is not the same as the saturated fat from a piece of fatty meat, and it is not the same as the saturated fat found in a bag of corn or potato chips.
Likewise, the sugar in natural honey is not the same as the processed/refined sugar found in many pre-made/processed foods.
Nature is not interested in making a buck by packaging and preparing food - it's humans who do that. Sometimes the food prepared is healthier than other prepared food - but if you want to get to the source - eat more from the source.
Just as a side note since I have a beer making thread on this forum:
The beer I make is healthier than commercial beer because the yeast (containing B vitamins) has not been stripped from it. That being said - alcohol in excess is very bad for the brain - I hope no one walks away with the idea that homemade beer is a *healthy* drink - not in excess it is not, the hops are good for you but the alcohol is a poison.
