The latest scientific thinking supports the notion that food promotes brain health and function. With a host of mental conditions affecting young and old alike (everything from autism to Alzheimer’s), it might be high time we took food more seriously.

A healthy brain knows where you are the whole time you’re conscious. Somewhere in your head is the constant mental narrative that tells you where you are, which way up you are, and where you stop and the world around you begins.

We’re built to look for, discern and process patterns and what they mean. However accurate it is, autistic people are usually portrayed as being gifted with complex systems, numbers and structures (think of the Rain Man-esque Vegas card-counting cliché).