Owen, L. and Corfe, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-0449-2228 (2017) The role of diet and nutrition on mental health and wellbeing. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 76 (4). pp. 425-426. ISSN 0029-6651
Abstract
Mental, neurological and substance-use disorders presently represent the greatest global burden of disease. Likewise, depression and other psychopathologies are elevated risk comorbidities of other health hazards, such as obesity. Nutrition has been implicated in behaviour, mood and in the pathology and treatment of mental illness. In this brief editorial, we aim to set the scale of the problem in context and overview advances and recent evidence linking nutrition to psychological outcomes. The purpose of the 2016 Nutrition Society Winter Meeting, ‘Diet, nutrition and mental health and wellbeing’ was to review where the evidence is strong, where there are unmet needs for research and to draw together the communities working in this area to share their findings. The papers presented demonstrated clear advancements that are being made in this field. The meeting illustrated compelling support for nutrition as a modifiable risk factor. The present research in the field and evidence presented at the 2016 Nutrition Society Winter Meeting lead us to postulate that even interventions with relatively modest effect sizes may plausibly and significantly curtail the disease burden of mental and neurological disease by food- and nutrient-based approaches.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Diet; Nutrition; Mental health; Cognition; Wellbeing |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 15:26 |
Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2018 15:26 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665117001057 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0029665117001057 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138610 |