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Vegans and vegetarians depressed twice as often as meat-eaters: new study
New York Post ^ | Sept 26, 2022

Posted on 09/27/2022 6:05:28 AM PDT by 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...

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To: bert
"Vitamin B 12 deficiency

No meat, no B 12"

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Also - depending on a vegetarian's diet, without meat they
may not be getting enough choline bitartrate.

This stuff is 'chemical precursor' to acetyl choline which
is a very important neurotransmitter chemical in the brain.
Simply put - without enough of this chemical, the brain
doesn't work too well.

I think that I remember reading somewhere that a lack of
choline bitartrate in the diet can cause depression.

So vegetarians should eat lots of wheat germ, soybeans,
and other non-meat foods that are high in choline in order to
compensate for the deficit of it in a meatless diet.

At least, that's what I remember reading.

41 posted on 09/27/2022 8:17:39 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: allendale

I agree completely! tho I think it is a ‘deep a seated’ psychosis!


42 posted on 09/27/2022 8:30:33 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: chuckee
Most vegans I've encountered are batshit crazy.
43 posted on 09/27/2022 9:01:00 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

“Most vegans I’ve encountered are batshit crazy.”

That’s because batshit is fits their diet. I’ll eat the bat and save the batshit for the vegan.


44 posted on 09/27/2022 9:40:18 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee

It was mental illness that inspired them to forego meat in the first place.


45 posted on 09/27/2022 10:34:30 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: FatherofFive

Penny Loves Steak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaj8eIkrEPM


46 posted on 09/27/2022 8:07:59 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: packagingguy

There would certainly be a lot less of them around, as there would be no reason to breed them. A farmer described to me how he sold off his cows when Pennsylvania set the ceiling on milk prices so low he couldn’t profit from his dairy operation.


47 posted on 09/28/2022 2:46:29 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kosciusko51

I keep seeing vegan cheese. Why do vegans want to eat pseudo cheese? Isn’t that against their credo?


48 posted on 09/28/2022 3:47:43 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

I guess if the cheese is plant-based, it doesn’t violate their credo. And they need it for their vegan pizzas.


49 posted on 09/28/2022 4:45:20 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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