How to eat yourself happy

"Foods to be avoided: beefe, venison, hare, heavy wines, cabbage, fresh-water fish." With these words the 17th-century Oxford don Robert Burton outlined – in The Anatomy of Melancholy – his recipe for avoiding depression and achieving mental wellbeing. What you ate determined your happiness and soundness. Hare was to be shunned with particular vigour, he argued. It is "hard of digestion, breedes i

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私たちが食べている「食べ物」が、自分の感情に影響を及ぼしているのは何となくわかるが、それを科学的に評価するのは決して容易くない。私自身、研究したい分野ではある。