Nutrition and Mental Health: An Interview with Julia Rucklidge, Ph.D.
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This episode of “Mad in the Family” discusses the links between nutrition and mental health, and the science that’s showing that diet may help improve or even prevent mental health issues in children and adults.
Julie Rucklidge: “Taking a one-a-day gummy bear might prevent you from getting scurvy, but it’s not meeting the optimal amount that your brain needs.”
Our guest is Julia Rucklidge, Ph.D. Dr. Rucklidge is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where she leads the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Group and serves on the Executive Committee for the International Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research.
Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 9:38 am
From quality sleep to developing language, experts will
share their expertise on many aspects of child well-being at
a symposium at the University of Canterbury (UC) this
week.
Children’s Commissioner Honourable Judge
Andrew Becroft and Assistant Māori Commissioner Glenis
Philip-Barbara will present the keynote address,
“The
Good Life”, In search of child and youth well-being in
NZ - at the Child Well-being Research Symposium on
Thursday 8 and Friday 9 April.
Professor Gail Gillon,
Director of UC’s Child Well-being Research Institute
(CWRI) is excited to showcase the leading research being
undertaken through the Institute.
“It’s a
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Professor Julia Rucklidge says we’re eating things that humans have never eaten before, and our bodies have had no time to adapt.
Can we combat depression and anxiety by changing what we eat? JEHAN CASINADER reports. Talking to Julia Rucklidge is a bit like opening a filing cabinet in the middle of a cyclone. Information pours out of her at a mile a minute – data, dates and details – and I’m desperately trying to grab it all before it blows away. Rucklidge, a clinical psychology professor at the University of Canterbury, has spent a decade examining the link between food and mental health. She can’t understand why more people aren’t interested in what she has to say.
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Ask Houghton whether it s a good idea to take multivitamins and she ll tell you the people who need them least are those who take them most; that we get the critical nutrients we need from our food. Apart from taking iron when she was younger, she doesn t use them. Then she laughs and adds, But my husband loves them. Dailey, she says, has given each of their three daughters, now in their teens and early twenties, a multivitamin tablet each day since they w