Foods that contain fat increase the risk of depression

Eating a lot of foods high in soluble fat not only leads to obesity but also may increase your risk of depression.

This finding is GS. Almudena Sanchez-Villegas and colleagues from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Navarra of Spain draw after monitoring and analyzing the diet and living habits of more than 12,000 people in many countries. Europe for a period of 6 years. These are people who do not suffer from depression. However, when the study ended, 657 of these people had depression.

According to GS. Sanchez-Villegas, the director of the study, who ate a lot of fat-rich foods such as processed foods, fast food . had a 48% higher risk of depression compared to lesser people. eat these foods. Research indicates that the cause of this condition is due to fundamental changes in fat content in Western diets, in which fats are healthy, do not produce cholesterol. like peanuts, vegetable oils and fish . replaced by soluble fats found in meat, butter, fast food .

Currently there are about 150 million people in the world suffering from depression, and this number is increasing in recent years, partly due to the impact of modern life rhythm affecting people's eating habits. .