But we already knew eating healthy foods make you healthier. Like the original comment said, maybe people who are depressed are less likely to eat healthy foods when they are feeling depressed.
If we already knew that eating healthy makes you healthy, then why are we running for alternative explanations here? Why can’t eating healthy make you emotionally healthy, too?
People in this thread seem to have a strong attachment to the stereotype of depressed people gorging themselves on junk food for comfort, but that’s all it is: a stereotype - hardly a reliable description of depression.
I mean yeah, when I’m most depressed I practically live on fruit and veggies. Cheap at the produce stand and takes no effort to prepare, easy calories. You have to cook meat, but not watermelon. Sprinkle some parmesan on canned green beans and boom, that’s dinner. You can leave apples in your room and then you don’t even need to get out of bed to eat! Also bags of chips. Hey, even that’s potatoes though!
But seriously, if a diet “cured depression” it wouldn’t be because it’s full of fruit and veg, it’d be because it’s dynamic and well rounded.
Nobody said “cured,” that’s exaggerating it to make a straw man out of it. “Significantly less likely to suffer from it” is the finding. The people in question may never have even been depressed at all.
That could very well be. The original comment was only pointing out the possibility that it could be the other way around since the post seemed to have left that out, that’s it.
But anecdotally it’s not that I eat junk food to feel better when I’m depressed, but I just don’t care. I’ve eaten a bag of carrots before as a dinner, I’ve had two pop tarts as a dinner too. I’m not trying to feel better.
While wealthier people have access to better food, is it that hard to believe that eating well also benefits your health and well being?
It’s not one variable. There is no depression sandwich.
Did anyone say this is the only variable? One thing can have an effect without being the entire explanation.
But we already knew eating healthy foods make you healthier. Like the original comment said, maybe people who are depressed are less likely to eat healthy foods when they are feeling depressed.
If we already knew that eating healthy makes you healthy, then why are we running for alternative explanations here? Why can’t eating healthy make you emotionally healthy, too?
People in this thread seem to have a strong attachment to the stereotype of depressed people gorging themselves on junk food for comfort, but that’s all it is: a stereotype - hardly a reliable description of depression.
I mean yeah, when I’m most depressed I practically live on fruit and veggies. Cheap at the produce stand and takes no effort to prepare, easy calories. You have to cook meat, but not watermelon. Sprinkle some parmesan on canned green beans and boom, that’s dinner. You can leave apples in your room and then you don’t even need to get out of bed to eat! Also bags of chips. Hey, even that’s potatoes though!
But seriously, if a diet “cured depression” it wouldn’t be because it’s full of fruit and veg, it’d be because it’s dynamic and well rounded.
Nobody said “cured,” that’s exaggerating it to make a straw man out of it. “Significantly less likely to suffer from it” is the finding. The people in question may never have even been depressed at all.
That could very well be. The original comment was only pointing out the possibility that it could be the other way around since the post seemed to have left that out, that’s it.
But anecdotally it’s not that I eat junk food to feel better when I’m depressed, but I just don’t care. I’ve eaten a bag of carrots before as a dinner, I’ve had two pop tarts as a dinner too. I’m not trying to feel better.