NRC Event Announced – ‘Should We Mind? Why Nutrition Matters for Mental Health’
Posted: March 20, 2017
Categories: Events / GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Members
The Nutrition Resource Centre (NRC) is holding a conference at the Chestnut Conference Centre, on November 9, 2017. The conference will explore answers to the following questions:
- What do we know about the link between nutrition and mental health?
- Why are diet and nutrition important for mental health promotion?
- Why is mental health important for optimal nutrition?
Join nutrition and mental health professionals from across Ontario to learn and discuss why nutrition and mental health need each other. This is also an opportunity to learn about the latest science on the incredibly complex relationship between nutrition and mental health, as well as what the science is saying. Be inspired by moving personal stories and hear about the experiences of your colleagues that are incorporating nutrition mental health promotion into their practises and daily work.
To register and learn more, please follow this link.
Topics include:
- What is mental health?
- Moving personal stories of mental health
- The link between mental health and nutrition
- Nutrition-related strategies to promote mental health
- How can nutrition and mental health professionals collaborate more effectively to promote mental health?
- Obesity, nutrition and mental health
- Nutrition and the brain
- Food insecurity and mental health
- Tools and resources for promoting healthy eating and mental health
And more!
There is also a call for abstracts and areas of focus include:
- The link between nutrition and mental health
- Mental health, nutrition and obesity
- Mental health, nutrition and chronic disease
- Preventing chronic neurodegenerative diseases
- Interprofessional collaboration to promote mental health and healthy eating
- Tools and resources to promote mental health and healthy eating
- Innovative nutritional policies and programming for improving mental health
If you would like to share your research, initiatives or ideas about mental health and nutrition, click here for details.
As per their website, the NRC, funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, has operated under the Ontario Public Health Association since 1999 and is one of 14 health promotion resource centres in Ontario. Their mission is to strengthen the capacity of health promotion professionals and community partners involved in healthy eating and nutrition across the health continuum.
The conference is being held in conjunction with the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) 2017 Fall Forum (November 8, 2017). Learn more about the Forum and OPHA here.