Vegans and vegetarians depressed twice as often as meat-eaters: new study

New York Post ^ | Sept 26, 2022

[chuckee]

Eating green and feeling blue? Vegetarians experience depressive episodes twice as frequently as meat eaters, according to a new study by Brazilian researchers published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. There’s a “positive association between the prevalence of depressive episodes and a meatless diet,” the study read. Scientists set out to investigate the potential association between a meatless diet and depression among adults, surveying 14,216 participants aged 35 to 74 years over six months. They were evaluated using the Clinical Interview Schedule-Revised instrument, a tool used to diagnose common mental health disorders. Vegetarians were found to have double the number of depressive episodes as meat eaters during the same period, even when variables such as smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity and micronutrient intake were taken into account. Researchers found an association between the prevalence of depressive episodes and a meatless diet...

[chuckee]

I would be depressed too if my diet was the same as that of a grassfed steer. I rather be eating the steer than sharing a meal with it.

[FatherofFive]

I get depressed when I don’t have bacon. Really depressed

[SaveFerris]

Of course they’re depressed.

They’re hungry.

[ferret_airlift]

A life without cheese is indeed a depressing one.

[logi_cal869]

Good.

How can I help make it worse?

[mikelets456]

Usually vegans are Godless, worldly types....so there’s that. There’s no hope when you’re Godless

[V_TWIN]

God didn’t put us at the top of the food chain and give us canine teeth just to eat bean curd and bugs.

Red meat, chicken, fish and pork (in the right portions) are a necessity for a healthy diet IMO.

[kosciusko51]

I tried vegan cheese once (long story). I’d rather die than eat it again.

[antidemoncrat]

If we were made to eat only veggies we would go moo and have horns instead of canine teeth.

[allendale]

These people are deranged. Veganism is just a manifestation of deep seeded subtle psychosis. Two good clinical rules: If a person’s behavior is inconsistent with Darwinian evolutionary principles or they constantly try to test the laws of physics, that person is usually quite disturbed.

[bert]

——Eating green and feeling blue?-—

Vitamin B 12 deficiency

No meat, no B 12

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[Yo-Yo]

I would be depressed too if my diet was the same as that of a grassfed steer. I rather be eating the steer than sharing a meal with it.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I limit my diet to only:

Plants
Things that eat plants
Things produced by things that eat plants
Things that eat things that eat plants.

Makes it simple. 🤗

[Iceclimber58]

MyWife has a friend that is a vegetarian. Except she eats bacon.🙄

[butlerweave]

Vegans and vegetarians are easier to control just ask Cults ,LOL

[dfwgator]

[FlingWingFlyer]

No wonder my lawn mower is always depressed.

[rlmorel]

Bacon!!!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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