Nutritional psychiatrist Felice Jacka: ‘The global food system is the leading cause of early death’
The Australian scientist on the links between ultra-processed foods and decreased brain health, and the effect of government policy and industry resistance.
Felice Jacka is a leading researcher of nutritional psychiatry, a relatively new field of study that considers the role of diet in mental and brain health. She is also the co-director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, Australia, and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She spoke to the Observer about her discoveries into the links between ultra-processed foods and the health of our brains.
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