
Dietitian's Dilemma: Dr. Chris Palmer - Mental Health
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
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The Diet Wars Aren't Working for the Mentally Ill
Mental health administration funded a campaign to lengthen the life span of people with chronic mental disorders by ten years. The campaign was based on, eat less, exercise more. At the end of the ten year period, the statistics those with chronic mental illness actually got worse, not better. We have pretty good evidence that it doesn't seem to work for the general populationd um. So i think we need new approaches.
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