Diet, Exercise and Mental Health

Dear Colleagues,

Poor diet is a key modifiable risk factor for the development of chronic diseases. While many effective nutrition interventions are available, there is emerging evidence that combining certain health interventions may target a much broader range of outcomes. For example, combining effective nutrition interventions with physical activity interventions may lead to improvements, not only in nutrition and physical activity, but also other health and wellbeing outcomes.

Additionally, given the known bidirectional relationships between nutrition, physical activity, and mental health, combining effective interventions targeting multiple outcomes may enhance their overall effectiveness across all of these outcomes.

This Special Issue welcomes papers of all study designs and from all world regions aimed at exploring interactions between diet, physical activity, and mental health. This includes work related to understanding how poor nutrition, physical inactivity and poor mental health may co-occur in individuals, as well the co-benefits of interventions addressing multiple outcomes. Articles focusing on any population group are welcome, as are studies conducted in any setting. Approaches to improving nutrition, physical activity, and/or mental health which report co-development with end-users, strategies to enhance intervention implementation, include cost or economic evaluations, or provide evidence syntheses are also welcome. 

Dr. Tara Clinton-McHarg
Guest Editor

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• diet
• nutrition
• mental health
• physical activity
• exercise
• health risk behaviours
• chronic disease
• prevention
• co-benefits
• health promotion