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A Mediterranean diet can help beat depression
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The diet, low in red meat and high in olive oil already protects against heart disease, diabetes and cancer
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According to a Spanish study, sticking to a Mediterranean diet can help prevent depression.
The Med-style diet - high in olive oil, fruits and cereals and low in red meat - is already thought to protect against heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
From a study of over 10,000 healthy adults over a four-year period, researchers found the risk of developing depression was more than 30 per cent less likely for people who followed a similar diet.
The study took place at the Universities of Las Palmas and Navarra, where researchers enlisted university graduates to take part. Their adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern was calculated after they had completed a series of questionnaires.
They took into account marital status, the number of children and factors linked to a healthy lifestyle but found the relationship remained the same.
Even taking account of personality traits, such as competitiveness and anxiety, had no effect on the results.
Professor Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez, of the University of Navarra, said that additional, larger-scale studies were required, but they had found a strong inverse association between the Mediterranean diet and depression.
“Thirty per cent is a large reduction in the risk and this could be very important considering the large burden of disease represented by depression. We know how important the Mediterranean diet is in reducing cardiovascular risk factors and the same inflammatory proteins are also raised in patients with depression.”
He also said it was likely that the overall dietary pattern was more important than the effect of single components and “may exert a fair degree of protection against depression.”
COMMENTS
This sounds like a promising direction for study, but I have to wonder if we’re not going overboard on the Med diet? I don’t generally tend to believe in cure-alls, and it sounds like this dietary pattern is being touted as the next one.
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So far, the Mediterranean diet has been shown to reduce heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and now depression? I can accept that a diet low in saturated fat and highly processed starch is probably good for heart disease and diabetes, and as a culture we’ll take anything that might offer a remote chance of helping us against cancer, but I feel that this correlation with depression might be a tad premature. While I understand that extensive studies have so far been performed trying to eliminate other variants, the definite link between cause and effect has yet to be proven.
I’ve eaten the Mediterranean diet for many years, and I’d like to put forth a different explanation possible for the study results. Namely, people who actively pursue the Mediterranean diet are still engaged in life. The diet in question either takes a lot of money or a fair bit of cooking. Those who engage in the diet are therefore those with access to a fair amount of money or who actively cook. While of course money alone is no guarantee against depression, the fact that someone would care enough to spend it on good tasting food seems to indicate an interest in life that is incongruous with a depressive personality. If the eating of Mediterranean food accompanies an active cooking hobby, that’s even less indicative of a depressive personality.
In conclusion, I would like to see a lot more stringent studies on the subject of the link between the Mediterranean diet and depression before we tout it as a panacea for so many different health conditions. As a culture we’ve come to expect far too many “wonder cures” as it is. We often fail to deal with chronic illnesses like depression in any effective or meaningful way because of it.
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