WELLNESS MATTERS: FOOD & MOOD

75 ROME STREET,Temple GA 30179

01 June, 2023

Description

The Adell Foundation has combined it's Cooking Matters Classes and Food Talk to create Wellness Matters: Food and Mood 8-Week Workshops gained at promoting healthier lifestyles in our service areas. This is free and open to the public but registration is required. A healthy diet promotes a healthy gut, which communicates with the brain through what is known as the gut-brain axis. Microbes in the gut produce neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, which regulate our mood and emotions, and the gut microbiome has been implicated in mental health outcomes. “A growing body of literature shows that the gut microbiome plays a shaping role in a variety of psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder,” a team of scientists wrote in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry last year. Large population studies, too, have found that people who eat a lot of nutrient-dense foods report less depression and greater levels of happiness and mental well-being. One such study, from 2016, that followed 12,400 people for about seven years found that those who increased their consumption of fruits and vegetables during the study period rated themselves substantially higher on questionnaires about their general levels of happiness and life satisfaction.