Ultra-processed foods are energy-dense and ready-to-eat food items including things like processed breakfast meats, packaged snacks, and ice cream as well as artificially sweetened drinks.
“What we found is that consuming high amounts of ultra-processed foods could increase your risk of developing depression by up to 50%,” said Raaj Mehta, MD, MPH, one of the study’s authors and a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
You know nothing is stopping people from eating these foods in moderation. You don’t have to go out and eat a family sized bag of chips by yourself in a single sitting.
Consuming large amounts of any food in a single sitting would be bad for you.
Family sized bags of chips are also a comfort food and very appealing when depressed.
They are cheap enough and filling enough and interesting enough that you can find yourself munching through them as you try and distract yourself from whatever.
It’s quite easy to set up a vicious circle of depressed -> eat crap -> depression.
And it is very difficult to break out of it
Obligatory: Fuck Nestlé (P&G, Unilever, etc.)
those water thieves
You know nothing is stopping people from eating these foods in moderation. You don’t have to go out and eat a family sized bag of chips by yourself in a single sitting.
Consuming large amounts of any food in a single sitting would be bad for you.
I had no idea. Thanks for the update.
You are welcome.
Eating disorders exist, company cantines exist, poverty exists. Not everyone has free choice in exactly how much processed stuff they eat.
Family sized bags of chips are also a comfort food and very appealing when depressed.
They are cheap enough and filling enough and interesting enough that you can find yourself munching through them as you try and distract yourself from whatever.
It’s quite easy to set up a vicious circle of depressed -> eat crap -> depression.
And it is very difficult to break out of it
But again that is not the companies fault that is making them. Tens if not hundreds of millions of people enjoy those foods responsibly every day.
It’s the depressed person who has an issue and needs to seek mental health care
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Mental health care is extremely easy to access. Just call a doctor and go.
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Where is that ? I can see a shrink in a few days if I call out here in jersey. There are shrinks every where now