Simple way to slash depression risk....

Today's Post: Monday, 1-31-2011

Tuesday, 1-25, last week we revisited the 6 ways that done together were tested to have a 75% rate of improving to curing depression – using NO drugs.

Today, we have documentation that also including a seventh and surprisingly forceful method may jump that improvement rate to the 83 to 95% range.

Even better, it can cut your risk of becoming depressed by over 58 %.

The two studies done on this were on related foods.

1. Researchers in London found that eating a diet of processed and fatty foods such as hot dogs, sausage, pie, and cakes increased the risk for depression. In that study, people who often ate fried food, processed meat, high-fat dairy products, and sweetened desserts had a 58 percent higher risk of depression than those who ate “whole” foods such as fish and vegetables.

And, on Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011, last week AFP had this story that was on a very similar theme: “Bad eating can give you depression: study.”

That Spanish study found that eating foods high in trans-fats increased the risk of depression. In fact, compared with people who simply avoided eating trans fats and hydrogenated oils they were 48% more likely to be depressed.

For people who ate a lot of trans fats, the risk was greater and greater the more they commonly at!

In contrast, these same researchers found that eating olive oil, which is high in mono saturated omega-9 fatty acids, the risk cut the risk of several kinds of mental illness.

Clearly eating olive oil instead of trans fats and instead of oils high in omega 6 is an excellent way to go.

(Olive oil also has been found to make Alzheimer’s disease less likely and lower the risk of heart disease.)

This seventh way also fits the model of eating the way people did before about 100 years ago as reducing depression.

Soft drinks both diet and regular, packaged desserts, and snacks – and other foods containing trans fats are best avoided to avoid depression according to this information.