Examining our changing eating habits over the past 50 years, researchers recently found that our ever-worsening diets may be linked to mental health problems such as depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD, and a decline in memory functioning.

The BBC reports:

Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: “We are well aware of the effect of diet upon our physical health.

“But we are only just beginning to understand how the brain as an organ is influenced by the nutrients it derives from the foods we eat and how diets have an impact on our mental health.”

And he added that addressing mental health problems with changes in diet was showing better results in some cases than using drugs or counselling.

You can read the whole article - along with the usual caveats - here.