Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

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And again, this is quite useful information for a planet that’s been in crisis — I mean, I would say just for the last two years, but with the invasion of Ukraine, it’s incredibly stressful, certainly in Europe at the moment. This is important information, in terms of how we — the strategies that are available to us to manage our stress on an everyday basis. Wilson: Yeah, and I think this has been the real contribution of, again, another relatively young field of study, called psychoneuroimmunology, because one of the things that we understand — so if we’re thinking about depression, and if you look at the causes, the known risk factors of depression, it is parental illness or parental stress; it is poverty; it is adverse childhood experiences; it’s experiences of trauma, of accidents, of physical injury. So there’s this plethora of events and behaviors and actions and relationships that lead to an increased risk of depression.

Corrine aims to use her dietetic expertise to understand the nutritional challenges of target audiences and create tailored marketing solutions that demonstrate brand value whilst nourishing with purpose. A powerful book that breaks down the dangerous beliefs that food is just fuel and delivers an important message we can all get behind... the evidence Kimberley presents in this book will change lives and hopefully policy' - Professor Tim SpectorTippett: And again, some of the things that you prescribe for, for example, minimizing stress or working with stress are things that are free: [ laughs] fresh air, natural light, sleep, rituals, the quality of our relationships. You also talk about arguments for limiting exposure to the news, as a therapeutic intervention. And I have to say, I — or, probably, to social media; or, those two things are synonymous, these days. I have to say, one of the most fascinating podcasts I listened to that you did was on dopamine, another neurotransmitter that we — is a word that we toss around. I certainly associate dopamine with that dopamine hit one gets from getting a notification or going online, being on social media. It was absolutely terrifying and illuminating to hear you talk about the importance of dopamine, not as a high, but just as one of the things that helps us decide to get out of bed in the morning, that helps with our overall pleasure in life; and what you explained is that what disrupts dopamine, or what plays with dopamine, actually works to diminish the baseline of that basic energy we have for life. Sugar is another factor. Too much glucose – for example, from sugars in fizzy drinks and sweet treats – can predispose someone to high blood sugar and insulin insensitivity.

This course has now passed, but you can be the first to know about the next one - and other workshops like this - by signing up to our newsletter here. What changes (if any) will you make either personally or professionally as a result of reading ‘Unprocessed’? How will you maintain these? But, despite suggestions that an all-female final may have prompted sexist responses, she said that the harshest critics were themselves women.And that’s going to give us a much better opportunity to hit the right target. If we can understand what the causes are, then we have a much better opportunity to intervene in an effective way.