Article: Is Your Junk Food Habit Making You Depressed?
Here's an article about a study with fascinating results: Is Your Junk Food Habit Making You Depressed?
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Regardless, I personally can believe that depression might be a physical reaction to junk food. Those of us who have switched to a whole foods diet can all attest to what happens when we eat off-plan! Sugar and junky food makes me lethargic and unhappy, where I feel like a slug instead of brimming with energy. I'm curious what everyone else thinks! |
Is your junk food habit making you depressed or is your depression leading you to eat junk food or is it a downward spiral where each contributes to the other? Regardless, another good reason to try to eat more whole foods.
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I think for me there is a bit of both involved. A leads to B. B leads to A. Sometimes the trigger is an emotional event that leads to eating. Sometimes the trigger is food that leads to emotion.
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I think it's chicken and egg thing. I've no doubt junk food can make depression worse (vicious cycle), but mainly I start eating junk when I'm depressed, which is effect instead of cause. Prolly also different for all of us.
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Since I cut processed foods from my diet, I feel AMAZING! I don't have the sugar cycle, my energy is more even, I am happier too. I have also lost weight and feel more in control over my weight and my life. Is that due to the food? Maybe. I would have to think that anyone going from a processed food diet (diet meaning eating pattern) to a whole foods diet would lose weight. So maybe it should measured after one is in maintenance or "used to" weight loss? It's interesting that I am WAY more positive than the last time I was at this weight (on the way up rather than the way down). But again, there are just so many factors, it's hard to tell.
The chemicals that are in processed foods do all kinds of horrible things to us. I would not doubt that there is a chemical connection between those foods and depression. I am not a chemical psychologist, so I don't know for sure, but it seems like it certainly couldn't hurt! I can say that since a whole foods diet would cause most people to lose weight and have better health, two things that can improve mood, the end result of it could be to provide downward pressure on the tendency to be depressed. Even if I never lost another pound, I wouldn't give up my whole foods way of life. |
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