When you consider how much of the food we eat has been warped and twisted out of its natural, healthy state it should come as no surprise when our bodies react in unpleasant ways.
On this blog I often talk about the links between processed, chemically abused foodstuffs and man boobs. But I could just as easily be talking about cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease… the range of modern health epidemics with proven links to the poor choices we make with our diet is virtually endless.
Now according to this BBC report, it looks like we can start adding mental health problems to the list.
A University College London study suggests that a diet high in processed foods significantly increases the risks of developing depression.
On a personal level this doesn’t surpise me in the slightest. Since making the kind of profound changes to my diet and lifestyle that I discuss elsewhere on this site, the improvements to my mood, outlook, my overall love and enjoyment of life, have been immense.
Man, I hate cliches – but never was there a truer one spoken than the one that says ‘ you are what you eat’.
Our body chemisty is extraordinarily complex – robust yet also extremely delicate. What we do to it matters. Not just in terms of the way that we look, but also in terms of the way that we feel.
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“you are what you eat”, so so true. I have suffered from bad depression ( bi-polar disorder ) many times in my life, and the state of mind i was in, and medication i was given, made me gain weight very quickly. Now, at 38 years old, and very out of shape, i have decided that now that my mind is ” fixed ” , it’s time to sort the body out. I stumbled across your site whilst browsing. Having already been on a diet for the last 3 weeks, i found this info very helpful indeed.
So thank you. I am sure many others read all this you have given, but don’t bother to tell you, so take it from me: it’s worth it, and really makes sense, and helps people already on diets to understand whats happening, and why, and what we can do.
Thanks for the kind words Jon!