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Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing?
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Poor nutrition may be a causal factor in the experience of low mood, and improving diet may help to protect not only the physical health but also the mental health of the population, say Joseph Firth and colleagues
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Poor nutrition may be a causal factor in low mood, and healthy dietary patterns such as the Mediterranean diet are associated with better mental health than “unhealthy” Western diets. Proposed mechanisms include glycaemia, immune activation, and the gut microbiome, but causal pathways and clinical applications remain uncertain.
Key findings
- Healthy eating patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, are associated with reduced risk of depression, whereas “unhealthy” eating patterns are linked to poorer mental health.
- Diets with high glycaemic index/load are associated with depressive symptoms; experimental exposure to high glycaemic load increases depressive symptoms in healthy volunteers with a moderately large effect.
- Inflammation may link diet and depression: Mediterranean diets can reduce inflammation markers, high-calorie/saturated-fat meals stimulate immune activation, and anti-inflammatory agents can significantly reduce depressive symptoms.
- Gut microbiome evidence is promising but not causal: probiotics can alter brain response to emotional attention tasks and may reduce depression symptoms, yet no causal relationship between specific microbes or metabolites and complex human emotions has been established.
Methods
- Design: narrative/analysis article synthesizing existing evidence; no primary data collection or systematic review methods are described.
- Evidence base: cites epidemiological, longitudinal, clinical experimental, observational, and randomized controlled trial findings on diet, glycaemia, inflammation, gut microbiome, and mental health.
- Main analysis: conceptual synthesis of hypothesized pathways—glycaemia, immune activation, and gut-brain signalling—plus discussion of intervention evidence and research priorities.
Limitations
- The paper states more research is needed to understand mechanisms and determine if, how, and when nutrition can improve mental health; causal roles of dietary inflammation are not established, and whether diet-induced microbiome changes affect depressive symptoms or clinical depressive disorders remains to be shown.
- The paper notes reverse causality and barriers to healthy diets in people with mental illness; a recent large trial found no significant benefits of a Mediterranean-diet behavioural intervention for adults with subclinical depressive symptoms, while smaller trials in current depression showed moderately large improvements, and expectations may affect results.
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review/analysis, it does not report a systematic search, risk-of-bias assessment, or meta-analysis, so conclusions rely on cited studies of varying designs.
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“In addition, relationships between nutrition and longstanding mental illness are compounded by barriers to maintaining a healthy diet.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“Healthy eating patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, are associated with better mental health than “unhealthy” eating patterns, such as the Western diet”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“epidemiological research has observed that adherence to healthy or Mediterranean dietary patterns—high consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes; moderate consumption of poultry, eggs, and dairy products; and only occasional consumption of red meat—is associated with a reduced risk of depression.3”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“However, the nature of these relations is complicated by the clear potential for reverse causality between diet and mental health (fig 1).”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
Strength:boosted· not yet calibratedCausal:conditional· not yet calibratedTests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes? Load-bearing: unclear✓ Based: passes- Rests on an assumption: Alterations in food choices or preferences in response to temporary psychological state are common human experiences.
- Rests on an assumption: Mood itself can affect our food choices.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Poor nutrition may be a causal factor in the experience of low mood, and improving diet may help to protect not only the physical health but also the mental health of the population, say Joseph Firth and colleagues”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“These barriers disproportionality affect people with mental illness and include the financial and environmental determinants of health, and even the appetite inducing effects of psychiatric medications.4”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“Thus, high dietary glycaemic load, and the resultant compensatory responses, could lower plasma glucose to concentrations that trigger the secretion of autonomic counter-regulatory hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline, growth hormone, and glucagon.5 9”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Mood and carbohydrates
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“Studies have found that sustained adherence to Mediterranean dietary patterns can reduce markers of inflammation in humans.14”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Diet, immune activation, and depression
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“However, other processes may explain the observed relationships.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Mood and carbohydrates
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In the paper
“Although mood itself can affect our food choices, plausible mechanisms exist by which high consumption of processed carbohydrates could increase the risk of depression and anxiety—for example, through repeated and rapid increases and decreases in blood glucose.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Mood and carbohydrates
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passes- Rests on an assumption: Mood itself can affect our food choices.
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In the paper
“The effects of certain foods or dietary patterns on glycaemia, immune activation, and the gut microbiome may play a role in the relationships between food and mood”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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In the paper
“Poor nutrition may be a causal factor in the experience of low mood, and improving diet may help to protect not only the physical health but also the mental health of the population, say Joseph Firth and colleagues”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Abstract
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“Consumption of highly refined carbohydrates can increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.5”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Mood and carbohydrates
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In the paper
“Furthermore, the inflammatory response to foods with a high glycaemic index13 raises the possibility that diets with a high glycaemic index are associated with symptoms of depression through the broader connections between mental health and immune activation.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Mood and carbohydrates
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In the paper
“For example, recent clinical research has observed that stressors experienced the previous day, or a personal history of major depressive disorders, may cancel out the beneficial effects of healthy food choices on inflammation and mood.22”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Diet, immune activation, and depression
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“Indeed, the inflammatory effects of a diet high in calories and saturated fat have been proposed as one mechanism through which the Western diet may have detrimental effects on brain health, including cognitive decline, hippocampal dysfunction, and damage to the blood-brain barrier.15”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Diet, immune activation, and depression
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“Furthermore, as heightened inflammation occurs in only some clinically depressed individuals, anti-inflammatory interventions may only benefit certain people characterised by an “inflammatory phenotype,” or those with comorbid inflammatory conditions.18”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Diet, immune activation, and depression
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“Furthermore, whether changes to the gut microbiome induced by diet can affect depressive symptoms or clinical depressive disorders, and the time in which this could feasibly occur, remains to be shown.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Brain, gut microbiome, and mood
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“Conversely, the consumption of a diet high in fibres, polyphenols, and unsaturated fatty acids (as found in a Mediterranean diet) can promote gut microbial taxa which can metabolise these food sources into anti-inflammatory metabolites,15 28 such as short chain fatty acids, while lowering the production of secondary bile acids and p-cresol.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Brain, gut microbiome, and mood
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“For example, the later consequences of a poor diet include obesity and diabetes, which have already been shown to be associated with poorer mental health.11 31 32 33”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Priorities and next steps
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“However, no causal relationship between specific microbes, or their metabolites, and complex human emotions has been established so far.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Brain, gut microbiome, and mood
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“This message supports the idea that creating environments and developing measures that promote healthy, nutritious diets, while decreasing the consumption of highly processed and refined “junk” foods may provide benefits even beyond the well known effects on physical health, including improved psychological wellbeing.”
§ Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? > Priorities and next steps
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The causes of mental illness are many and varied, and they will often present and persist independently of nutrition and diet.
“At the same time, it is important to be remember that the causes of mental illness are many and varied, and they will often present and persist independently of nutrition and diet.”
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Stigmatisation about an individual’s dietary choices and mental health could itself be a causal pathway to increasing the risk of poorer mental health.
“Indeed, such stigmatisation could be itself be a casual pathway to increasing the risk of poorer mental health.”
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Alterations in food choices or preferences in response to temporary psychological state are common human experiences.
“For example, alterations in food choices or preferences in response to our temporary psychological state—such as “comfort foods” in times of low mood, or changes in appetite from stress—are common human experiences.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Mood itself can affect our food choices.
“Although mood itself can affect our food choices”
The paper relies on this without support.
The relationships between diet and mental health are complex and multidirectional.
“While acknowledging the complex, multidirectional nature of the relationships between diet and mental health (fig 1), in this article we focus on the ways in which certain foods and dietary patterns could affect mental health.”
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“A poor diet has been linked to depression through mechanisms such as inflammation [428].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Firth, J., Gangwisch, J. E., Borsini, A., Wootton, R. E., & Mayer, E. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
- King's College London (GB)
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Firth, Joseph
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2020-06-29
- Volume
- 369
- Pages
- m2382
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7322666
- OpenAlex
- W3037973279
- Cited by
- 475
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 65 · 2025: 113 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 77 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 6
- FWCI
- 36.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2020-11-09)
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Danone
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- UK Research and Innovation
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust/Institute of Cancer Research
- Axial Biotherapeutics
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR-INF-0632)
- King's College London
- European Commission (HORIZON2020)
- University of Bristol
- Eisai
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Fatty Acid Research and Health
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Keywords
- diet, nutrition, psychological well-being, depressive mood, depression, mental health
- MeSH terms
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Diet, Healthy, Anxiety, Cognition, Depression, Humans, Inflammation, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Nutritional Status
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