No Shit Sherlock

[paulhaines]

Wow, who'd have guessed? Unhealthy diet could fuel depression in women.  Don't we know this already?

The good news, implied of course, is that us men can keep eating that shit.

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[alinta_thornton]

Nup, no such luck. The study was only done on women so they have nothing to say about men. But you knew that right?

Also, it's only a correlation: depressed people are eating shit. It doesn't necessarily mean that eating shit causes depression.

"The researchers said the findings highlighted the need for additional investigations to determine whether unhealthy eating leads to declining mental health or vice versa."

That's not to say I'm proposing a crap diet.

[paulhaines]

The long and the short of it is that a crap diet will fuck you up.

Garbage in garbage out.

This is what our grandmothers taught us.

[alinta_thornton]

Interestingly, my grandmother had TB as a teenager in Hungary, where they cook their food for hours and hours and well brought up young girls stay indoors to protect their complexions.

She said she cured her TB by "doing as the peasants did when they got TB", which consisted of sitting in the sun and eating only raw food for six months.

Given how many people died of it back then (we're talking early 1930s), that's quite a rap for the raw food diet. She must have been deficient in Vitamin D and a whole bunch of other things at the time.

[paulhaines]

Wow! And interesting that it was a known remedy too - "as the peasants did".