Nutritional psychiatry: An evolving concept

[3] Over the years, owing to globalization, there has been tremendous change in the pattern of food consumption which replaces the more nutritious, less dense, fiber rich traditional food to less nutritious, more energy dense, and fiberless modern food. [...]the increased food demand globally urges for adapting different food producing and manufacturing techniques such as industrialized farming, intensively reared animals, use of food additives, pesticide usage, and processing methods which in turn is having a negative impact on nutritional value of the food and thereby mental health. [1] As nutrition is one of the important predictors of both mental health and other noncommunicable diseases (NCD), it acts as direct and indirect link for mental health outcome. [...]NCD such as diabetes and other chronic diseases are associated with comorbid mental ill-health. [...]by addressing the nutritional issues, one can achieve the betterment in both NCD control and mental health disorders.