Food = Mood Resources

Created on: 12 Feb 2021 | Last modified: 19 Apr 2023

Further Learning

FutureLearn hosts a range of nutrition and well-being related courses you can access for free, to study in your own time.

John Hopkins University offers a free, online course on Public Health Perspectives on Sustainable Diets.

Further Reading

The BBC is well known for hosting a wide range of cookery programmes and recipes.  Alongside these are articles exploring food and well-being:

Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment from The Conversation.

The SMILES (Supporting the Modification of lifestyle in Lowered Emotional States) trial is the first of its kind to investigate the questions ‘if I improve my diet, will my mood improve?’.

Further Listening

Dr Chatterjee’s podcast on feeling better through better eating.

Here Christina Starko talks of the theory behind how what we eat affects how we feel, and practical tips to help positively influence the relationship.