>Does anybody know of any studies linking nutrition and happiness, happiness
>not being the absence of depression. My feeling from the reading I've done
>recently is that not only are traditional/stone age peoples not prone to
>depression, they are also much happier than we are. I have observed this
>personally in my travels in Africa....
>I bring this up because I have heard that depression is predicted to be the
>major illness of western man in the next 20 years, and I've suffered and
>been treated for this myself.. My personal feeling is that this is
>nutrition linked, and that the steady deterioration of the nutrient level
>of our food supply is behind this.

Charles, I don't doubt this at all but I don't have any studies, either.  I
do, however, have some experience in this area.  I was on an anti-depressant
about 6 years ago.  I've said this many, many times; Zoloft took me from the
basement to the ground floor.  But dietary changes took me the ground floor
to the top of the roof!  And a third-levels roof, at that.  I may never know
exactly why but my own experience is enough for me.

Dori Zook
Denver, CO
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