According to statistics, about one sixth of adults in the united kingdom are considered to be suffering from depression, often accompanied by anxiety, which makes daily life difficult. It has been estimated that depression causes an annual loss of approximately pound105 billion (approximately pound94. 84 billion) in the united kingdom, including reduced productivity and treatment costs. A recent new study found that eating junk food increases the risk of depression, while maintaining healthy eating habits can effectively prevent depression。
According to british guardian 26, five longitudinal studies of 3298 adults in the united kingdom, spain and australia have found that eating foods containing large amounts of fat or sugar and other unhealthy foods not only leads to a full-body inflammation response, but also, as a result, to trans-shipment to the brain through inflammating molecules, which in turn affects the molecules responsible for emotional regulation, increasing the risk of depression。
According to the report, new studies have shown a direct causal link between bad eating habits and depression, not just a link. Dr. Tasnim akbarari of the university college of london said: “our recent research has shown that improved diets are of great benefit to depression, and we should support psychologists in treating diets as part of their diagnosis and treating diets as a mainstream psychiatric medicine.” dr. Cozmo herström, an expert in depression at the royal college of psychiatry, stated that “it is not surprising that chemicals in the human intestinal tract are very similar to those in the brain, so that what affects the intestinal tract also affects the brain”. At the same time, it was found that regular consumption of foods such as fish, fruit, nuts and vegetables helped to regulate people's mental health and significantly reduce the risk of depression。
However, some experts have criticized the findings of the study, according to neved sattar, a professor of metabolic medicine at the university of glasgow in the united kingdom, “the evidence is not yet sufficient to prove that healthy diets can be effective in preventing depression, as so far most of the evidence has merely shown that people who are mentally ill usually do not eat well. In addition, the transfer of inflammating molecules as a link between diet and mental health is a fragile explanation.” wang ezra
