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New evidence indicates that if we ban fossil fuels, we may be able to eliminate depression!!!
Global warming impacts our mental health : TreeHugger
Who knew??!!!
We need to go all solar all the time........like tomorrow folks!!
New evidence indicates that if we ban fossil fuels, we may be able to eliminate depression!!!
Global warming impacts our mental health : TreeHugger
Who knew??!!!
We need to go all solar all the time........like tomorrow folks!!
The situation is more dire than I had feared.
God help us all.
A report from the National Wildlife Federation estimated that 200 million Americans will be subject to stress due to climate change.
The people entering Felice Jacka’s offices over the next few months will be in the throes of depression. She wants to help them – but her approach is unorthodox. Her team at Deakin University in Australia won’t be trying out a new cocktail of drugs. Nor will they be mulling over the patient’s childhood, their jobs, or their marital difficulties to help them cope with their problems. Instead, she wants them to talk about food. If Jacka is right, changing their eating habits could be a key part of these people’s recovery. She has good reason to believe this; over the last few years, a series of striking findings have begun to suggest that fatty, sugary diets are bad for the mind, as well as the body. The result is a cascade of reactions in the brain that can eventually lead to depression.
Although the link is by no means proven, the fear that we are eating our way to depression is already prompting governments to take action. The US Department of Defence is now funding a trial that will deliver daily nutrient-rich food parcels to a group of former soldiers, to see if it can reduce suicide rates in army veterans. And at the start of this year, the European Union launched the 9m euro MoodFood project to further explore the way different nutrients may influence our minds. Certainly, no one is suggesting that a new diet should immediately replace existing treatments; Jacka’s volunteers will still be taking their medications as well as changing their eating habits. But if healthier eating can improve their recovery rate – or prevent some people developing symptoms in the first place – it would make for a simple, complementary way to help tackle mental illness.
‘Mind and body’
To grasp why your favourite dishes could be influencing your mental health, you first need to understand a strange aspect of the mind-body connection that first came to light 20 years ago. At the time, doctors were concerned that the stresses of poor mental health would weaken the body’s immune response, leaving them open to infection. Instead, they found the exact opposite was true; in people with depression, the immune system seemed to be going into over-drive. For instance, the blood of depressed people was awash with a particular type of protein, called cytokines, which normally lead to inflammation after illness or injury.
Fish oils showed a positive impact on mental health
As the scientists pressed on, it became clear that this was a two-way process: not only could depression cause inflammation, but crucially, inflammation from other causes seems to be triggering depression. Some grounds for this link came from diseases that are known to send cytokines flushing through the body, like arthritis or cancer; patients often report depression before a diagnosis has even been made. “The people become depressed even before they know that they have cancer, and it ties in with the high levels of cytokines” says Michael Maes at Deakin University in Australia, who has pioneered work on the biological basis of depression.
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New evidence indicates that if we ban fossil fuels, we may be able to eliminate depression!!!
Global warming impacts our mental health : TreeHugger
Who knew??!!!
We need to go all solar all the time........like tomorrow folks!!
I didn't know the government had a Jeannie! Who'd have thought?New evidence indicates that if we ban fossil fuels, we may be able to eliminate depression!!!
Global warming impacts our mental health : TreeHugger
Who knew??!!!
We need to go all solar all the time........like tomorrow folks!!
They are depressed because an inch of water is a rapid increase in sea levels.New evidence indicates that if we ban fossil fuels, we may be able to eliminate depression!!!
Global warming impacts our mental health : TreeHugger
Who knew??!!!
We need to go all solar all the time........like tomorrow folks!!
I can see how the climate failing to cooperate with the warmer wackaloons might cause them to be depressed, but I really don't see how my own gales of laugher at their abject stupidity could be construed as depression in any way....of course to a warmer a failure of the climate to warm and even slightly cool looks like rapid, unprecedented warming so who knows how they perceive reality...
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Fast food causin' depression?...
Is fast food making us depressed?
26 August 2014 ~ Do burgers, sugary snacks and other unhealthy foods exacerbate the effects of mental illness? David Robson investigates the evidence, and discovers a surprising new idea to help treat depression.
They are depressed because they see our world going down the shitter from the combination of a small number of loudmouthed ignoramuses and human cowardice in the face of change. It's an interesting juxtaposition as it is one that creates the other.
