The APEAL Lab recently collaborated with Dr. Felice Jacka, based at Deakin University in Australia and an expert in the field examining diet and mental health, on a study examining the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake and mental health disorders in the Canadian population. This paper, entitled “The association between fruit and vegetable consumption and mental health disorders: Evidence from five waves of a national survey of Canadians” was recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine and found that greater fruit and vegetable intake was significantly associated with lower odds of depression.
