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Junk food can lead to mental illness

junk foodAccording to reports published last week by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain, and organization that campaigns for better food in the UK, junk food and the absence of essential fats, vitamins and minerals appear to have contributed to increasing mental illness: attention deficit disorder (ADD), depression, Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

Nutritionist Caroline Stokes said that mental health patients had the poorest diets, "eating lots of convenience foods, snacks, takeaways, chocolate bars, crisps." Additionally, they are "drinking a litre or two of cola a day."

So if you feel like you're going crazy, cut out the junk food. It'll do your body and your mind good.

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Howard

9-02-2006 @6:02PM Howard said... Lets talk about it.
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Prudence

9-02-2006 @10:20PM Prudence said... *bipolar girl slowly puts the ice cream down*
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kaitlin  Hess

9-02-2006 @9:42PM kaitlin Hess said... Health food can lead to mental illness too, ya know.
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Dr. Electro

9-03-2006 @1:02AM Dr. Electro said... Well there you have it. Now everybody knows just why I'm so freakin' crazy.

'Scuse me, my alter ego wants another Big Mac.

Who said that?
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The Dude

9-06-2006 @1:40PM The Dude said... I would be inclined to agree with those findings.

Just go see Idiocracy to understand where this country is going, if we follow this path.


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