Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition Archives

Are diet and mental and brain health linked?

A growing pool of evidence directly links diet quality with mental and brain health. Previously, diet and nutrition have been mostly linked to physical health. But rapidly growing evidence associates …

What are the social determinants of health?

Social factors affecting mental health are often the most impactful and extensive. Mental health issues and disorders occur on a social gradient. This means they are more common in areas …

How do you change dietary behaviour?

There are many ways to make small but effective changes to dietary behaviour. Here, we summarise a few practical steps: Try and follow a dietary pattern based on wholefoods Enjoy …

How to change dietary behaviour

Changing behaviours requires motivation and readiness. To change a dietary behaviour, whether it’s your own or someone else’s, everyone needs to be willing to make a change, be able to …

Unpacking the ModiMed diet: the guiding principles

The ModiMed Diet was based on a high consumption of vegetables, wholegrain and fruits. The ModiMed dietary recommendations were based on eating from 12 food groups. Let’s have a closer …

Microbiota: Little things with big impact

We are not alone. The human gastrointestinal tract (the gut) harbours a large number of living microorganisms. Trillions of these microorganisms play an important role in the state of our …

Key ideas and principles

Dietary intake is one of the key modifiable determinants in the complex mix of biopsychosocial factors impacting mental and brain health. This week we unpacked the statistics on diet and …

Dietary assessment

Dietary guidelines give us recommendations for a healthy diet, but how does this measure up to what we are actually eating? Assessment of dietary intake is one of the first …

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Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition