Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan

- If you could change one or two things in society to help decrease mental health disorders through nutrition, - What would you change?

One thing I would change is I would hold media accountable for the way they convey nutrition research.

Two, I would change the way we subsidize and price crops and you know, wheat and corn and soy vegetables and meat so that we focus on making the whole natural foods the cheapest and the ultra processed food the most expensive.

That may be a bit of a pipe dream, but I would love to see that type of a change.

- I think.

I think about the food deserts and just more accessible grocery stores that actually carry natural foods that are available to everybody, especially in impoverished areas.

That's a big one.

And then the medical thing gonna harp on that this whole interview is just that the conversations that are happening when you go see a doctor are more thorough, that they actually take individualized time and attention to really understand you and your body and craft a plan that makes sense for you.

- Yeah.

I would intensify the pressure on the system to give parents whose children are leaving breastfeeding or formula feeding a more intense focus on what a good diet looks like.

Or there's some consensus on at least fruits and vegetables and not so many high processed foods and calories.

'cause there are some things that we all agree on that do ultimately affect mental health.

But I think what we do is what we really focus on breastfeeding, we really focus on that form of feeding and then it's the wild west.

After that, they just start doing things that they were taught to do.

And I think if we spent more time on the child between the ages of two and five, we'd have better educated children and better educated adults.