Want to be happier? Eat less junk food and more fish.

Diet plays a crucial role in mood disorders. Research shows that foods high in omega-3 fatty acids can fight feelings of depression. Conversely, foods loaded with simple carbs can bring you down.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption.

Shocking News About Processed Meat

That made great reading. I stopped eating the horrible red meat and all other processed meats a long time ago and my mind clarity as well as my skin and overall health has drastically improved since. 95% of my diet is vegetable and fruit, I don't even eat sweets anymore.

The things these governments allow to be sold is really staggering.

PrinceH - the western diet has a lot to answer for...I'd go as far as saying it should be viewed from the same perspective as the effects of drugs on the human mind and body.

Spinster - this is where you need root cause analysis - I would suggest to you that the need for medication in many cases is a consequence of the dieting practises which are usually sold to us as healthy not realising healthy refers to western econominies and not our minds and bodies....indeed much of the medicine industry is all part and parcel of that money system.

Or if you like look at it this way, the people who provide us with all these computer anti-virus packages are probably the same people who created the virus in the first place.

Prince H - there was also a recent report about the consumption of water and how it has little benefit to the human system. i have to say I have made water part of my regular diet and the changes to mental and physical fitness are definitely noticeable.

Went for an allergy test in holland and barett a while ago and the guy said exactly the same thing.

Am trying to drink vegetable juice with breakfast each morning, don't eat pork but I've found it difficult cutting down on meat in general, guess when I move out of home it'd be easier. Would stick to fish then, can't beat catching your own either, sitting on a beach or boat with a fishing line is what life is about, have always been a bit of a fisherman .lol.

I kinda see what you're saying. It's like a never-ending cycle that boils down to money/economics. However, I've worked with people for whom medicine, change in lifestyle, and counseling does work. It's unfortunate that the medications are making others far more richer than those needing them.