Improving mental health through nutrition: the future.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin). When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fever and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him (Joseph Addison). The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptians thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace (Seneca). Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food (Hippocrates).