Posted on 11/07/2013 12:09:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
Officials at Harvard conducted a 12-year study on 43,000 women and found higher rates of depression in those consumed more pasta and other refined grains, according to Newser.
The study found that women who cosumed more soda, red meat and refined grains like pasta, white bread and chips were 29 to 41 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression when compared to women who consumed more wine, coffee and vegetables.
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“They look at you funny if you eat it with your hands.”
The reason being it is next to impossible to speak with anything in your hands.
Its most likely the other way around...women eat pasta BECAUSE they are depressed..why do you think they call pasta a “comfort”food.
Try paying a toll while discussing which Grandmother gets Christmas. She’s lucky she can conduct the family business during her commute.
Cause or effect?
A no pasta diet would be depressing in itself.
Eating large amounts of ice cream directly from the carton late at night causes depression and bouts of crying.
Both immediately, and again after the weight gain.
Enough wine and coffee and you won’t know if you’re depressed.
Red meat doesn’t fit into the equation.
It’s nature’s way.
Good point.
it certainly does not
apparently the “green” movement....is a lot stronger at harvard than could previously been IMAGINED!
all this going on while we have a GMO.....genetically modified obama in the Whitehouse....
It's both. A lot of people get almost addicted to the sugar rush of eating carbohydrates. They get a little down at the end of the month, eat pasta and potato chips and pie, and all those worthless carbs make their mood plummet after a few hours. Doesn't help that all that stuff makes them retain water and gain fat, either.
Or... depressed women just tend to eat more pasta. Certainly seems true for chocolate and ice cream.
Sounds like the stuff I used to eat in Turkey. They had a different name for it, of course, but that was what I had almost every day for lunch at the restaurant across the street from the campus. The first time I saw it, my reaction was, this must be Turkish pizza. Very tasty.
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