Connection between food, body and mind

There is growing evidence that diet quality and adequate nutrition could improve mental health. Many factors influence the diets of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; for example, colonisation’s disruption to traditional dietary patterns and food sourcing, and the entrenchment of socio-economic disadvantage. As a population group, Indigenous Australians are consuming a diet of low nutritional quality. This publication reviews the nutrition-focused programs that were delivered to Indigenous Australian communities, which also measured emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes.

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