ArticleNutrients2022
Increased Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food Is Associated with Poor Mental Health in a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescent Students in Brazil.
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- The science of child and adolescent mental health in Brazil: a nationwide systematic review and compendium of evidence-based resources.BMJ global health · 2026Pooled it
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: Evidence from a Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Neurobiological insights into the effects of ultra-processed food on lipid metabolism and associated mental health conditions: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Dietary Patterns and an Adverse Mental Health Indicator Among School-Attending Brazilian Adolescents: Analyses of the 2015 and 2019Nutrients · 2026Article
- Ultraprocessed Foods Associated With Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Associations of Eating Habits According to Domains of Parental Physical Activity (EPI-Family Health Study).Nutrients · 2025Article
- Low Self-Perceived Cooking Skills Are Linked to Greater Ultra-Processed Food Consumption Among Adolescents: The EHDLA Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Eating Disorder Risk Among Adolescents: The Influence of Dietary Patterns, Physical Activity, and BMI.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Temporal trend of food consumption indicators of adolescents monitored by Primary Health Care services of the Brazilian National Health System, 2015-2019.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025Article
- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Its Association with Risk of Obesity, Sedentary Behaviors, and Well-Being in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health: Where Do Eating Disorders Fit into the Puzzle?Nutrients · 2024Review
- Common mental disorders in Brazilian adolescents: association with school characteristics, consumption of ultra-processed foods and waist-to-height ratio.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Mediterranean Dietary Patterns Related to Sleep Duration and Sleep-Related Problems among Adolescents: The EHDLA Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Ultra-processed foods and the nutritional transition among infants and young children: a radiography from Brazil.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyze the association between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and mental health symptoms in a nationally representative sample of the Brazilian adolescent student population. Cross-sectional analyses with data from the National School-Based Health Survey (PeNSE 2019) were performed. Self-reported information was obtained for the frequency of five mental health symptoms in the last month and the consumption of thirteen UPFs in the last 24 h. Generalized linear models adjusting for the main confounders were performed for each sex. Of the 94,767 adolescent students (52.4% girls) included, 8.1% of the boys and 27.2% of the girls reported "almost always" or "always" having at least four of the five mental health symptoms. In the fully adjusted models, compared to the boys who consumed ≤3 UPF, those consuming ≥6 UPF reported more frequent symptoms of poor mental health (ß-coefficient = 0.27 [0.03, 0.51];
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