The Mediterranean Diet and its health benefits for emotional and mental health

benefits for depression:

  • Mediterranean Diet with more fresh foods and less fast food, sugar, and processed meats help young men with depression. Read more

  • A Mediterranean-style diet supplemented with fish oil improves mental health in people with depression. Read more

  • Mediterranean diet and mental health showed positive findings on the improvement of depressive symptoms. Read more

benefits for optimism and good mood:

  • Higher Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet is related to more happiness in adolescents. Read more

  • Mediterranean diet foods have been linked to improved mood in women. Read more

benefits for stress

  • Eating a Mediterranean diet may reduce the effects of stress. Read more

  • Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet may counteract the effect of stress-induced inflammation and decrease the risk of future mental health. Read more

benefits for treating ADD and ADHD

  • Low adherence to a Mediterranean diet might play a role in ADHD development in children. Read more

  • Higher adherence to a Mediterranean diet containing vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, grains, and fish could decrease the odds of ADHD in primary school children. Read more