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The Food Chain

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Diet and Depression - What's the Connection?

Professor Felice says the key is getting lots of fibre and important nutrients known as polypenals from cerain plants into our meals. This can help promote a healthy gut ecosystem. The more colorful the better, that's right. So dark green, deep green, but allso purple and red and those sorts of things. A great meal would potentially include nuts and seeds,. herbs and spices, because they're fantastic sources of polyphenols. It would include whole grain, so it might have brown rice or black rice or kini or something like that. And it would probaly have lashings of olive oil, because that extra virgin olive oil is absolutely full of polypenales.

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