Adult Mental Health: The Role of Nutrition

Poor nutrition contributes to all types of mental ill health, including

• everyday difficulties with mood, sleep, behaviour, attention and memory
• clinical level problems such as anxiety, insomnia and depression
• more serious conditions, such as psychosis*

*which may arise from any of a range of conditions including PTSD, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia or substance use disorders.

This webinar addresses how nutrition is of fundamental importance for mental health and wellbeing, as well as physical health and how this can be applied in practice for adults with mental health problems.

A Perfect Storm

Poor Diet - people with these symptoms may have poor quality diets for many reasons, including food poverty, other social disadvantages, and basic selfcare being difficult when managing symptoms.

Medication Side-effects - some of the medications used for these conditions also increase risks for obesity, type-2 diabetes and related conditions in which diet plays an important part.

Lack of Knowledge - there is a huge, unmet need to help patients, their carers and families to access better nutrition as evidence shows this can affect their mental wellbeing and assist their recovery, by helping to improve mood, sleep, behaviour and ability to think clearly.

Learn

• Which aspects of diet can raise the risk of developing mental health problems in those with predisposing factors
• What research is showing about the potential costs vs benefits of nutritional approaches to mental health treatment
• The latest evidence for the benefits of Omega-3 for the prevention and management of psychosis
• What dietary changes affected individuals and families can make for themselves
• How professionals working in adult mental health can help and support patients with their lifestyle choices.
  



The video recording of this FAB Research Live Webinar and Q&A event - together with downloadable handouts - is available FREE to FAB Associates (for other benefits of joining FAB as an Associate member - see HERE).

Alternatively, this - and other individual FAB Webinars - can be accessed for a small fee via our FAB Webinar Library