Food and Mental Health Connections

 While eating healthy can boost health, it's also true the other way around. Between the ages of 10-19, eating too much junk food can harm your brain as well as body. It can impair the brains was of thinking, learning, and remembering along with possibly causing anxiety and depression. Eating unhealthily is most harmful to teens because their brains are not fully formed yet. The prefrontal cortex- part of the brain that weighs risks and make decisions on how to behave- doesn't fully develop until our early 20s. 

I think this interesting because I always enjoyed learning about mental health and how to maintain good mental health. I never actually thought that the foods you eat could effect the way you think and even damage your brain. Most of the time I just think of it negatively effecting the body. This makes me wonder if it may be more difficult for teens to avoid these kinds of foods depending on how their brain specifically functions/ has functioned their whole life. 

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  1. AnonymousDecember 15, 2020 at 8:21 AM

    I didn't know food could have such an effect on your mental health. Usually, when I hear the term junk food, the first thing that comes to mind is the human body not the brain. I also didn't know the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully develop until our early 20's.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 19, 2020 at 9:14 AM

    I always knew that eating unhealthy or eating junk food could be bad for your body, but I never realized it could affect your brain and mental health too. I think learning about this topic is not only important because unhealthy food affects your body, but when you bring emotions into it that's a whole different level of important. It was very interesting learning about how food can affect your brain and mental health.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 19, 2020 at 3:57 PM

    Reading this made me realize how much junk food i actually consume, and how beneficial getting away from it can be. This made me think of health class, where we cover how this variety of food is bad for your health, but I think that we should learn the effects of it on our mental health as well.

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