Felice Jacka
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- Children's Books
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- > Children's General Humor Books
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- > Children's Anatomy Books
- Health, Fitness & Dieting
- > Diets & Weight Loss
- > Other Diet Books
- > Mental Health
- Medical Books
Felice Nellie Jacka OAM is an Australian academic, founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She is a professor of Nutritional Psychiatry and the director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University.
Jacka focused her research work in the field of nutritional psychiatry, establishing diet as a risk factor and treatment target for common mental disorders. In 2017, she led a trial showing that an improved diet could treat major depression, finding that healthier eating habits can result in a 30% reduced risk of depression.
