Garth Kroeker

 Chocolate is one of my favourite foods, and may even have health benefits.  But of course, we have to be wary of bias about health claims t...

Omega-3 supplements and Vitamin D have seemed very promising for years, to help with general health, depressive symptoms, cognition, or bipo...

 Zinc is a metallic element, and an essential nutrient.   It is toxic if ingested in excess, with various side effects such as nausea, heada...

The nutritional supplement industry has a global market size of over 300 billion US Dollars annually.   This is comparable to all the money ...

Jacka et al. have just published in BMC Medicine (January 30, 2017) the results of a study showing that healthy dietary change leads to sign...

There are a lot of people who make dietary recommendations.  It can be hard to figure out whom to believe. There is a huge amount of money...

Another study published in 2012 about dietary berry intake associated with slower rates of cognitive decline: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

A reader recently sent in a comment wondering about the possible role of vitamin B12 supplementation in psychiatry. Here's a brief rev...

Here's an interesting update on the dietary fatty acid issue, as it pertains to mood disorders and neuroplasticity: http://www.nature.c...

Here's another exploitative marketing scheme going on, in the middle of university campuses: A sugary drink, consisting of water with ...

I'm intending to start a series of posts reviewing articles that I found interesting from a selection of journals published in the first...

Dietary nut intake is strongly associated with a variety of health benefits, particularly a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease....

This is a sequel to one of my previous posts: http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2008/10/chocolate.html A recent study looked at various horm...

An important paper was just published by Akbaraly et al. in The British Journal of Psychiatry , in which 3486 people were followed prospecti...

In this month's Archives of General Psychiatry , a study by Sanchez-Villegas et al. is published showing a strong association between lo...

Here are some great questions about ADHD, submitted by a reader: 1) You write here that long-term use of stimulants has NOT been shown to...