Fish diet against depression

American psychiatrists and nutritionists follow a new slogan: “a person “feels” what he eats.” According to a new theory that has taken over the minds on both sides of the Atlantic this summer, there is a very close connection between diet, brain function and an individual's emotional state.

Studying the effects of foods that have been called "comfort foods" throughout the world's civilizations is opening up new and revolutionary frontiers in the treatment of depression and other mental illnesses, scientists say. And these diseases, they argue, can be overcome by using food instead of drugs.

At least three scientific studies conducted in the US, UK and Israel indicate that increasing intake of polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, which are present in fish, has a “huge effect” on depression and brain dysfunction in humans. This fact probably explains why the Japanese and Finns who eat