Friday, January 15, 2010

Mental Depression? It's The Sugar In Your Diet!

Malcolm Peet, an eminent British psychiatric researcher, has come up with an astonishing finding - mental illness may be the result of high sugar consumption. Intake of refined sugar inhibits the release of an important growth hormone in the brain called BDNF. It also promotes chronic inflammation. All of which contribute to depression and schizophrenia, not to speak of brain damage. Read up more on this. And it's time to axe those sugary cravings. Not much bliss in seeing a shrink, is there?

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