Most of us are familiar with food banks and soup kitchens, where donated food goes to feed hungry people in the community. Yet we rarely talk about the connection between mental illness and hunger and how access to food can do more than just provide a full stomach. Numerous studies have shown a link between poor intestinal health and an increase in mental illness -- though which is the cause and which the effect remains up for debate. Whether hunger causes mental illness or the illness makes people more susceptible to hunger isn't really the issue. It's difficult (if not impossible) to heal the brain without healing the body as well.
[For more of this story, written by Tove K. Danovich, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/food-politic/using-food-as-a-treatment_b_5610289.html?utm_hp_ref=mental-health]
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