Determining optimum basic diet from scratch

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Hi All,

I want to ask your advice about my sister. She's 54 and has been

suffering from severe mental illness for several years. She became

manic, was manic for a while and then crashed into a severe

depression, and has been there ever since. I am thinking that

improving her diet might help her significantly. She does try to eat

at healthily as she can, given her circumstances, and is somewhat

knowledgeable in that area, but I don't think she quite knows what her

optimum diet is. I think it's likely she's eating foods that are not

good for her. I'm thinking some kind of metabolic typing paradigm

might help. I've been reading some old posts on the subject. One of

them said that the questionnaire in the Wolcott book seemed to end up

designating most people as mixed types, and made reference to an

Intermediate questionnaire. Can anyone help me get started with

this--either with regard to metabolic typing or making any suggestions

about determining one's optimum basic diet from scratch? Thanks.

Rick