Physical Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition

Henry, Lisa

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Lisa Henry²

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This chapter begins with a literature review on the negative health outcomes associated with food insecurity and poor dietary habits in the general population. I briefly review the literature on K-12 students before detailing the expanding research on college students. Next, I discuss the research at UNT and detail the physical consequences of food insecurity as described by students. The next section discusses the association of mental health issues with hunger and poor nutrition, starting with the general literature, then among college student, and next among UNT students. Finally, I end the chapter with a discussion about how nutrition fits in with their experiences with food insecurity and their physical and mental health.

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Henry, L. (2020). Physical Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition. In: Experiences of Hunger and Food Insecurity in College. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31818-5_4

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