do search on paleolithic diet, and you will support your statements
Kathy
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From: Charles Alban <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Nutrition and happiness


> 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. Is there any objective measure of
> happiness? And why, for example, are Down's syndrome sufferers always
happy?
> Is this anything to do with vitamin E levels? pituitary gland?
>
> 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
> San Diego, CA