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So what should we eat? The research points to a Mediterranean-style diet made up primarily of fruits and vegetables, extra-virgin olive oil, yogurt and cheese, legumes, nuts, seafood, whole grains and small portions of red meat. The complexity of this diet will provide the nutrition our brain needs, regulate our inflammatory response and support the good bacteria in our gut, says Dr. Mosconi, author of “Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power.”
The Food That Helps Battle Depression
wsj.com
Depression is the sickness of a society that suffers from excessive positivity. It reflects a humanity waging war on itself.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
Simply put, the brain needs to model a ‘self’ in order to predict future states that the ‘self’ might inhabit. Along this line of thought, [Friston (2018)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X#bib0300) suggested that self-awareness arises whenever an organism generates predictions about the consequences of its actions, and thus aims to minimize the *expected* surprise resulting from those actions.
From Many to (N)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind
sciencedirect.com
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