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Does eating fruit and vegetables also reduce the longitudinal risk of depression and anxiety? A commentary on ‘Lettuce be Happy’
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Mujcic, Redzo and Oswald, Andrew J. (2019) Does eating fruit and vegetables also reduce the longitudinal risk of depression and anxiety? A commentary on ‘Lettuce be Happy’. Social Science & Medicine, 222 . pp. 346-348. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.004 ISSN 0277-9536.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.004
Abstract
This commentary provides evidence of a longitudinal connection between current diet and later mental health. We build upon a research study, Ocean, Howley, and Ensor (2019, forthcoming), which uses UK data to argue that consumption of fruit and vegetables may be able to improve people's self-assessed mental-health scores on the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and life-satisfaction scores. We show, in Australian data, that an equivalent result may be true for actual clinical diagnosis of depression and anxiety. We conclude that there appears to be accumulating evidence for the psychological power of fruit and vegetables.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Manic-depressive illness -- Prevention, Anxiety -- Prevention, Fruit -- Health aspects, Vegetables -- Health aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science & Medicine | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0277-9536 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 222 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 346-348 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.004 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 January 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 January 2020 | ||||||||
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