Do you like to eat diet high in processed food? Researcher found eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression. The British Journal of Psychiatry reported that people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression.
The study was conducted over the period of a five years and after equalizing the content for factors like sex, age, education, physical activity and chronic diseases, they found that people who ate the most whole foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression and the lot with a diet high in processed food had a 58% higher risk of depression.
The study showed that those who avoided processed food and instead ate a healthy amount of vegetables, fruit and fish, or what is known as the Mediterranean diet, actually lowered their risk of depression.
The crucial major study is help us to understand more fully the relationship between diet and mental health but they admitted that "if you are already depressed, you are more likely to eat food that’s not good for you i.e. processed food. This angle of depression causing unhealthy dietary habits, they say, is best left for another study".
