Posted on 01/26/2011 5:54:35 PM PST by decimon
WASHINGTON (AFP) Eating foods high in trans-fats and saturated fats increases the risk of depression, according to a Spanish study published in the US Wednesday, confirming previous studies that linked "junk food" with the disease.
Researchers also showed that some products, such as olive oil, which is high in healthy omega-9 fatty acids, can fight against the risk of mental illness.
Authors of the wide-reaching study, from the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, followed and analyzed the diet and lifestyle of over 12,000 volunteers over six years.
When the study began, none of the participants had been diagnosed with depression; by the end, 657 of them were new sufferers.
"Participants with an elevated consumption of trans-fats (fats present in artificial form in industrially-produced pastries and fast food...) presented up to a 48 percent increase in the risk of depression when they were compared to participants who did not consume these fats," the head study author said.
Almudena Sanchez-Villegas, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, also noted that in the event "more trans-fats were consumed, the greater the harmful effect they produced in the volunteers."
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Happy Meal ping.
I know when I eat a bad meal like a salad I’m depressed all day that I didn’t go to a Red Robin and have a RR classic cheeseburger and their seasoned fries.
So can good eating! Step on that scale, watch it go up a few pounds—instant depression!
depression is not a “disease”
Call it a disorder if you must, but it is NOT a “disease”.
Doesn’t it seem that all these studies can go either way? Maybe the opposite is true: being depressed means you don’t give a damn about your body/health and so you just eat junk. That sounds pretty logical to me. What depressed person wants to spend the time to cook a healthy meal?
Depression, being found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a disorder - gee, who’d of thunk???
Who dreams up this crap.
I bet government grants are involved.
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I never saw a person be grumpy after chowing down on a good rib steak!
Depression is neither a disease nor a disorder. It is an economic condition brought on by putting trans-factual policies in place, i.e. Obamanomics.
Yeah, that’s why vegans are always so happy and cheerful.
Or even worse, a case of the squirts.
I ate a cup of clam chowder at the airport restaurant in Rutland, VT in 1995 and was sick for a month.
Lost over 10 lbs. and have never eaten clam chowder since.
Just looking at them little oyster crackers things makes my bowels loose.
I’m glad you shared that with the rest of us.
Thank you
Ditto !
The government should not be involved, but trans fats are really bad for you.
Eating healthy is not that hard. Cutting out trans fats, too much sugar, etc. is not that big of a deal. Sugar will cause depression.
bad government is giving me depression...
and with a $20m government grant, i can prove it
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