Bioactive Compounds for Customized Brain Health: What Are We and Where Should We Be Heading?

Many strides have been made in the field of nutrition that are making it an attractive field not only to nutrition professionals but also to healthcare practitioners. Thanks to the emergence of molecular nutrition, there is a better appreciation of how the diet modulates health at the cellular and molecular levels. More importantly, the advancements in brain imaging have produced a greater appreciation of the impact of diet on brain health.

Validity and reliability of Food-Mood Questionnaire (FMQ).

Background: The need for short and validated questionnaires to evaluate dietary patterns (DPs) and mental distress in clinical and research settings is increasing.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Food-Mood Questionnaire (FMQ) to assess DPs in relation to mental distress.

Method: A standard validation protocol that included item development, pilot-testing, test-retesting, and a series of statistical validation analyses was used.