#26: Eating for Mental Health with Professor Felice Jacka
11th Aug 2019
Food and Mood is the topic of the podcast this week where we’re talking about ‘Eating for Mental Health’ with Professor Felice Jacka, Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia.
Today I’m speaking to Professor Felice Jacka about her new book BRAIN CHANGER and how diet can save your mental health. The book tells the story of why we need to consider our food as the basis of our brain and mental health throughout our lives.
Prof Jacka first came on my radar when I heard of the SMILES trials - which we’ll talk about a little bit later in the Podcast.
Professor Jacka is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and pioneered a highly innovative program of research that examines how individual’s diets, and other lifestyle behaviours, interact with the risk for mental health problems.
Today we talk about:
- Where mental health begins
- Junk food and its impact on the adolescent brain
- Stress and its impact on the immune system
- The SMILES trials
- Including quality fats in your diet
- Making sure that you’re getting fibre into your diet
- Flavonoids, colours and getting more plants onto people’s plates
You’ll find the recipe video that I made with Professor Jacka, and our super interesting conversation - on my youtube channel go check it out online and there’s a link below too!
Episode guests
Professor Felice Jacka is director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia, founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research, and immediate past-president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. She holds Honorary Principal Research Fellow appointments at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Centre, and the Black Dog Institute. Professor Jackas current research focuses closely on the links between diet, gut health and mental and brain health.
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