nutrition and mental health

This summer my diet went to hell and I began to eat way too many carbs. My weight climbed rapidly and I did not feel well at all, with decreased energy, low mood, high anxiety, bloating and cravings. I have a renewed respect for the reality of carbohydrate addiction, because though I was aware that I…

In the GAPS healing protocol, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride recommends that we get obtain our nourishment from whole foods sources, and in general is very mistrustful of supplementation with isolated vitamins and minerals. Supplements that she does regularly prescribe are fish oil, cod liver oil and iodine, when needed. Iodine is a non metallic mineral that…

2011 has been a truly remarkable year in terms of the variety of revolutionary movements sweeping the globe, as well as the unprecedented number of extreme weather events. From the Arab Spring, with its toppling of one despotic regime after another, to demonstrations in China, Russia and Greece, to the Occupy Movement here in the…

It is a sad reality of contemporary American psychiatry that many clinicians do not have the time or appropriate training to talk and listen to patients. Instead they are quick to assign the diagnosis du jour, which is often stunningly incorrect, and implement the corresponding treatment, with disastrous medical and psychological consequences. Every Tuesday I…

I love rice. All varieties, white and brown, short and long grain, nutty basmati and fragrant jasmine.  I adore the smell of it cooking. I love spicy Thai and Indian curries over mounds of rice, and even eating rice with just butter and salt. It’s the ultimate comfort food for me. Others have similar feelings…