
Mental Health and Nutrition
- Average length
- 1hr
- Interactive tasks
- 2
- Q&A
- 15min
- Timezone
- GMT+13
- Recording?
- yes
Session Overview
Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, the rates of mental illness have been on the rise rather than a decline. Over the last decade, scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.This lecture will discuss the vital importance of ensuring we all have access to nutrient dense food, and possibly supplement, in times of stress to ensure the brain has the foundation is requires to function optimally. Join Julia in this interactive lecture and learn about how nutrition is affecting our mental health.
Your speaker
Julia Rucklidge
Julia is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing at the University of Canterbury and the Director of the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab, Te Puna Toiora and co-author of The Better Brain.
Focusing on
Nutrition and mental health

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