Science and domestic life come together in Mary Beth Albright’s ‘Eat & Flourish’

DAVID WILSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Although Mary Beth Albright had been studying the latest research developments connecting food to mental health for more than a decade, she decided to write her new book, “Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being,” after going through first a divorce and then another stress-inducer, the pandemic.

“They say that every time a baby is born a mother is born, too. And every time there’s a divorce, there’s a single parent born,” Albright says.” I was going through a lot during that time with isolation and trying to help my son both through the divorce and the pandemic.”