• 25% of 16-24 year old Australians have mental illness with depression being most prevalent.
• Almost half the Australian population (45.5%) is expected to suffer from mental illness at some point in their life. (Australian community survey 2007).
So this is a great leap for nutritional medicine. Published this month in The Lancet Psychiatry "Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry".
Research is mounting to support diet and nutrition as determinants and therapy for mental health.
"Evidence is steadily growing for the relation between dietary quality (and potential nutrient deficiencies) and mental health.
The emerging and compelling evidence for nutrition as a crucial factor in the high prevalence and incidence of mental disorders suggests that diet is as important to psychiatry as it is to cardiology, endocrinology and gastroenterology."
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