Role of fruit and vegetables for the mental health of children: a systematic review

(2019) Adherence to the “high quality” Mediterranean diet (MD) and mental well-being were examined in a group of Spanish children and adolescents. They were cross-sectionally analysed at the start of the study and after a 2-year interval (533 children and 987 adolescents initially, 527 children and 798 adolescents at follow-up). The aim of the study […]

In this study by Naya et al. (2022), the authors investigated the links between children’s daily negative affect (NA) and consuming unhealthy foods on the weekends, using data from the Mothers and Their Children’s Health cohort study, through an ecological momentary assessment (EMA). 195 children (49% male, 9.65 ± 0.93 years of age) responded to […]