Celebrated on October 10, World Mental Health Day is a good day to start adding more fruit and vegetables to your meals.
Among other health benefits, eating a diet rich in these foods has been shown to improve mental health. Most of us do not eat enough of them, though.
In Hong Kong’s Population Health Survey 2020-22, conducted by the Department of Health, only 2 per cent of respondents reported having an average of five or more servings of fruit and vegetables a day, Poon says, with that split between 2.2 per cent of females and 1.8 per cent of males.