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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 104, Issue 10, Pages E31-E42Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302110
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- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [1052865, 1012472, 628912]
- NHMRC [1059660]
- Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Meat and Livestock Australia
- National Institutes of Health
- Cooperative Research Centre
- Simons Autism Foundation
- Cancer Council of Victoria
- Stanley Medical Research Foundation
- Medical Benefits Fund
- NHMRC
- Beyond Blue
- Rotary Health
- Geelong Medical Research Foundation
- Bristol Myers Squibb
- Eli Lilly
- Glaxo SmithKline
- Organon
- Novartis
- Mayne Pharma
- Servier
- Brain and Behaviour Research Institute
- Australian Rotary Health
- Ian Potter Foundation
- University of Melbourne
- Sanofi-Synthelabo
- Janssen Cilag
- Pfizer
- Health Ed
- Network Nutrition
- Deakin University
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We systematically reviewed 12 epidemiological studies to determine whether an association exists between diet quality and patterns and mental health in children and adolescents; 9 explored the relationship using diet as the exposure, and 3 used mental health as the exposure. We found evidence of a significant, cross-sectional relationship between unhealthy dietary patterns and poorer mental health in children and adolescents. We observed a consistent trend for the relationship between goodquality diet and better mental health and some evidence for the reverse. When including only the 7 studies deemed to be of high methodological quality, all but 1 of these trends remained. Findings highlight the potential importance of the relationship between dietary patterns or quality and mental health early in the life span.
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