Healing Outside The Box

Today I take a deep dive into some of the scientific theories that are now connecting the foods we eat to our moods. But I first considered calling this episode something like "the CHIP diet, revisited" because some of these studies were conducted on subjects following this particular diet plan. CHIP stands for complete health improvement program, which was first studied in 1998 and looked at reducing symptoms of coronary artery disease. I devoted an entire episode to the chip program (episode 185) and you can find it here.  I mentioned an organization called SPUR, out of Eastern Massachusetts. They gave me a :thank you" bouquet of flowers for my volunteer work with schoolyard vegetable gardens. Here is a link to a story about them. Hint: this could be put together in almost any city or town in the United States. I also mentioned a couple of articles on the link between inflammation and depression. This study links depression to interferon treatment in cancer patients.  Here it is another study that links i