Food as Medicine: Mental Health and Fish

Last week, I
discussed food as an addiction. On my homepage, I provided a continuation of
how food can be medicine and food can poison. In it, I highlighted the power of eating fish for brain health. Recently, a study caught my eye relating salmon
consumption to reducing anxiety in ninety-five male forensic inpatients.

Specifically,
the study investigated how consumption of Atlantic salmon could modulate
biology and self-reported anxiety. The researchers measured heart rate variability
(HRV) and heart rate (HR) as indicators of the nervous system response to
dietary components. Furthermore, they investigated the outcome measures in
relation to specific …read more