Junk food ups depression risk: Study
A
diet of fast food, cakes and processed
meat may significantly increase risk of depression,
a study has found.
Researchers
from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK found that eating foods which
are known to promote inflammation -- such as those high in cholesterol,
saturated fats and carbohydrates -- puts people at 40 per cent higher risk of
depression.
The
team analysed data from 11 existing studies that focused on the link between
depression and pro-inflammatory diets -- encompassing more than 100,000
participants, between 16 to 72 years old, of varied gender and ethnicity,
spanning the USA, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
All
the studies recorded the presence of depression or depressive symptoms in the
participants -- through self-observation, medical diagnoses and antidepressant
use --alongside a detailed questionnaire about the contents of their diet.
Each
participant was assigned a score of how inflammatory his or her diet is,
according to the dietary inflammatory index. Read
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