Junk food is absolutely the cause of the mental health crisis
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I’m with ya. It’s truly sad how they are poisoning everyone they can.
Definitely plays a large part. I think another significant factor (in the U.S. at least) is that schools are pushing kids, at increasingly younger ages, to discount or fully abandon values learned from their parents. A basic foundation of certitude is being eroded, leaving a generation of younger people with an uneasy, no-net context for their lives.
Yes I agree with that, but I think a healthy person’s mind can overcome awful situations like the one our kids find themselves in today, whereas a literally poisoned mind cannot contemplate any, it just feels pain
The two periods of my life where I totally abstained from junk food for a year (once by circumstance, once by choice) are easily the most mentally healthy years I’ve experienced, no depression, no anxiety, so self-esteem challenges.
Recently after a year of not eating any junk food (seed oil specifically) I had two small bags of Doritos. That night I was laying on my living room floor feeling essentially suicidal out of nowhere. It was extreme and acute. From there I was convinced.