ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2020
Effect of food-related behavioral activation therapy on food intake and the environmental impact of the diet: results from the MooDFOOD prevention trial.
Article in European journal of nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02529423 (Multi-country cOllaborative Project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related Behaviour, and Obesity in the Prevention of Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Multi-country cOllaborative Project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related Behaviour, and Obesity in the Prevention of Depression (MoodFOOD)
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Supplementation-induced increase in circulating omega-3 serum levels is not associated with a reduction in depressive symptoms: Results from the MooDFOOD depression prevention trial.Depression and anxiety · 2020Trial
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- Development and validation of an online tool for assessing dietary intake, diet quality, and environmental impact in Mexico.mHealth · 2025Article
- Towards the characterisation of sustainable diet's gut microbiota composition and functions: A narrative review.Gut microbiome (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Health and sustainability co-benefits of eating behaviors: Towards a science of dietary eco-wellness.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Review
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- Eat Well to Fight Obesity… and Save Water: The Water Footprint of Different Diets and Caloric Intake and Its Relationship With Adiposity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Assessment of the Methodology That Is Used to Determine the Nutritional Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet-A Scoping Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Sustainable healthy diets from the lens of behavioral science: an actionable definition for designing relevant individual behavior change interventions.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
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16 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
purposeFood-based dietary guidelines are proposed to not only improve diet quality, but to also reduce the environmental impact of diets. The aim of our study was to investigate whether food-related behavioral activation therapy (F-BA) applying Mediterranean-style dietary guidelines altered food intake and the environmental impact of the diet in overweight adults with subsyndromal symptoms of depression.
methodsIn total 744 adults who either received the F-BA intervention (F-BA group) or no intervention (control group) for 12 months were included in this analysis. Food intake data were collected through a food frequency questionnaire at baseline and after 6 and 12 months. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE), land use (LU), and fossil energy use (FEU) estimates from life-cycle assessments and a weighted score of the three (pReCiPe score) were used to estimate the environmental impact of each individual diet at each timepoint.
resultsThe F-BA group reported increased intakes of vegetables (19.7 g/day; 95% CI 7.8-31.6), fruit (23.0 g/day; 9.4-36.6), fish (7.6 g/day; 4.6-10.6), pulses/legumes (4.0 g/day; 1.6-6.5) and whole grains (12.7 g/day; 8.0-17.5), and decreased intake of sweets/extras (- 6.8 g/day; - 10.9 to - 2.8) relative to control group. This effect on food intake resulted in no change in GHGE, LU, and pReCiPe score, but a relative increase in FEU by 1.6 MJ/day (0.8, 2.4).
conclusionsA shift towards a healthier Mediterranean-style diet does not necessarily result in a diet with reduced environmental impact in a real-life setting.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov. Number of identification: NCT02529423. August 2015.
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