Darker days getting you down? Food can boost your mood but depends which ones you eat
Darker days getting you down? Food can boost your mood, but it depends which ones you eat
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I must have missed a discussion of the benefits of eating meats in that article.
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:lol: I did too. But be sure you eat plenty of oily fish! Quote:
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Hmm... seems they forgot to mention the mercury content in the recommended fish, but perhaps that's why they're only recommending 2 servings/week. This part also had me scratching my head: Quote:
Especially when it was followed by this: Quote:
So let me get this straight. According to the information provided in this article, eating whole grains is good for mental health, as long as you don't get them from pasta and bread made from wheat. So bring on the gluten free products made from rice and tapioca! $$$ Oh wait, that would contradict the evidence that refined carbohydrates are linked to depression.:bash: Ok, so apparently the only way around this is to invest in the new (and extremely expensive) pastas made from legumes. Quote:
And of course even though everyone is advised to wear sunscreens every day of their lives, every moment they're out of doors, so that the skin can't possibly absorb enough sunshine to create enough vitamin D to last through the winter months, you also need to take a Vitamin D supplement, because diet alone can't possibly provide enough, especially when one of the best all-natural food sources of vitamin D (eggs) is still off the menu for so many people, since there's still so much concern about all the killer cholesterol they contain. Although there is the Vitamin D content of your two servings of oily fish... you'd think that would help enough to not need supplements. (Do nutritionists or doctors ever bother to look up nutrition stats before spouting all this nonsense?) The harder the-powers-that-be try to protect us from ourselves, the more complicated they make it for everyone, and the worse things become. |
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Ignorance is Bliss because they just don't know what they don't know!! :lol: |
And so, all you come away with is confusion.
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It seems that no matter the question the answer is always the Mediterranean diet.
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:lol: :agree: Part of my healing regimen is supplementing with amino acids and other neurotransmitter precursors. I have better mental clarity when I eat meat, too, which is like getting ALL possible protein kinds and combinations, along with good fats. All of which the Mediterranean diet mindset ignores. Especially the horror of red meat! |
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I didn't see anything in the article that recommended eating pasta or bread of any kind. Eating whole grains, for those with a gluten intolerance, would mean brown rice, quinoa, oatmeal, etc. |
OK....I'm depressed just reading the list :D
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It's like a bad nightmare where the Zombies are trying to force feed you Whole Grains!!! :lol:
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I thought it was funny how they mentioned that gluten could contribute to depression even if you're not celiac - but they still want you to eat lots of whole grains, specifically mentioning whole grain cereal as anti-depressive. Sure, you can get cereals made from brown rice, quinoa, and oatmeal. I still find it telling that they're not taking into account that 50-75 years ago, there were no huge numbers of depressed individuals, not even in the UK, where the winter days are very short and gloomy. Did they have gluten containing cereals for breakfast? If they ate cereals instead of eggs and bacon, they most likely ate gluten containing cereals. The ones who ate eggs, or even the Full English, or soft boiled eggs would eat those with toast made from gluten containing bread (most likely white bread, not whole grain). They've decided that the problems they have today can't possibly have anything to do with the huge number of carbs in the currently recommended diet. It can't be that they're pushing for everyone to seriously limit cholesterol and fats in the diet. It can't be that the constant use of sunscreens is reducing the amount of vitamin D your body can make (even on a cloudy or rainy day) and store up for the winter months, or that reducing egg intake could even be a factor, despite the fact that eggs provide a fairly good dose of D. They're essentially saying "We're sorry, but 50 years and more ago, we didn't know what actually constituted a healthy diet or safe sun protection, so it can't be any of the things we've convinced you to change about your eating or living habits, since we now know what's good and bad for you, and clearly the diet that was common among previous generations was NOT good for them, despite the fact that they were far slimmer, healthier, and experienced far less depression. So listen to us, and eat your grains, along with this handful of pills every day, because we know what we're talking about." |
Exactly right about the eggs with Choline for the brain and they had people so afraid to eat even one egg.
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I swear by salmon for lots of things, including mood.
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So these researchers picked some nutrients they think are good for avoiding depression and then checked nutrition lists to find the stuff highest in those nutrients without actually testing those food combinations on actual patients, right? Who wants to volunteer to eat lots watercress, spinach and oysters and see what happens? Me, I think I'd get pretty sick. However, I'm quite not depressed and doing fine on stuff like lots of meat and some eggs and dairy, thank-you.
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There is of course a routine they go through - check for certain vitamin levels that seem to be related to depression/lack of depression. Are they causing the depression? Or do they become depleted because the person is depressed? The automatic assumption is that they're causing the depression. Are they the only nutrients involved? Who knows? Then they go from there, basing the food choices on other factors they consider to be good/bad for you. So they probably specified in their search of their nutritional databases that they wanted it to find foods which met their obligatory low calorie, low fat, high fiber, low sodium, and low cholesterol criteria, telling it to look for those nutrients in whole grains, fish and seafood, fruit and vegetable products, because that would criteria would only give them "healthy" foods, and automatically filter out "bad" foods, including all those that just happen to be even better sources of those nutrients. ~~~~ I just noticed this from the article: Quote:
Focusing on the green leafy veggies list - I'd never heard of Cavalho nero before, so I googled. Turns out it's actually a type of kale, with a much darker, somewhat different shaped leaf, often called black kale or lacinato kale. This is a leafy green that even working in a large grocery store for the last 7-1/2 years, I'd never even seen that kind of kale until maybe a year or two ago, and it's still only available at a premium price, and on a very limited basis. So before naming this mysterious cavalho nero to the must-eat list, did they even bother to try to figure out what it actually was? Or did they just see it on their nutrient list, and say BINGO - we have a winner! (A winner that will have people desperately searching for this mysterious green, and if they can't find it, they'll blame the fact that they're still depressed on not being able to find this particular green to eat in huge quantities) [I acknowledge that even though it's new to me, it's entirely possible that it's well known by that name in the UK, and that perhaps much more readily available there too.] Furthermore, is the list of green leafies limited to kale, collards, and cavalho nero? Surely there's more than 3 species of green leafy veggies out there - what about spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens, dandelion greens, chard, and the plethora of lettuces and herbs out there? Another factor is that most of those green leafies really only grow in the cool weather of spring or early fall, but bolt to seed in hot summer weather, and die off in freezing weather. They blame seasonal depression at least in part on the short days of winter, and yet the only way to obtain those leafy vegetables in the middle of winter, is if they're shipped in from far away locations in the opposite hemisphere, which happen to have the seasonal conditions necessary to grow them at the time of year when you need those nutrients in the your hemisphere. How much of the necessary nutrients will be lost during all that shipping time? Really irks me that they spend so much time trying to pin all kinds of health conditions on specific, nutrients, but then when they tell you where to obtain those nutrients, they filter out anything that doesn't meet their other arbitrary health criteria, then somehow expect you to obtain the few out of season foods they mention. (seasonal foods which by the way were NEVER available out of season 100 years ago, because transportation from seasonal growing areas would have taken several weeks. Not that they really needed out of season foods back then, because seasonal depression was an anomaly, instead of the norm.) Good luck actually absorbing whatever nutrients are still left in the greens that are shipped in from half-way across the world in the dead of winter too, because dietary fats are required to absorb vitamins and minerals, but they sure don't want you do eat any useful fats, just those 2 weekly servings of oily fish. :bash: The nutritional recommendations THEY provide are just topsy-turvy, upside down, and getting worse all the time. |
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