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11/3/2009 2:09:21 PM
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Madison Bridgen
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091102/health/lifestyle_britain_health_research
Processed and greasy foods can increase depression in people by up to 58%, according to this article. So if you're feeling down, it's time to gorge on fruits and vegetables.
The only problem is that processed food tastes so much better and is easier to get a hold of. If I'm spending $5 I might as well fill up on a burger rather than 5 fruit cups that will just leave me hungry again in 20 minutes.
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11/3/2009 6:53:12 PM
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Marian
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Not if you eat fresh fruits and vegetables. The getting hungry again after eating fruit cups is that they are loaded with sugar. Sugar sends you on a brief high and then a crash where you're both hungry and depressed.
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11/3/2009 7:57:17 PM
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Kevin C.
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Yes if you eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Apples make me more hungry than Chinese food, and I'm less hungry if I skip fruit at breakfast than if I eat it.
I sincerely hope the link doesn't have the full story, for the reasons given why processed foods can increase the likelihood of depression doesn't quite ring true. Were I one of the researchers, I'd start looking at the ingredients in the processed foods, then conduct a study with the same foods but with one "plain."
What constitutes processed? Freshly ground hamburger wouldn't seem to be processed, but cured ham probably is.
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11/3/2009 9:51:00 PM
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Marian
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What's wrong with being hungry, especially at breakfast? It's only wrong when it's a blood sugar crash brought on by eating too much sugar.
However, I agree with your point about how vague the article is.
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11/3/2009 9:55:53 PM
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pc
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OMG, that means, if I change my diet, I'm at risk of exploding from sheer joy!
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11/3/2009 10:55:51 PM
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Kevin C.
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Marian wrote:
What's wrong with being hungry, especially at breakfast? It's only wrong when it's a blood sugar crash brought on by eating too much sugar.
You admit that yes, fruits and vegetables can leave you hungry? As to what's wrong with being hungry, try concentrating while hungry. Or try digging post holes while hungry. Or clearing brush. Or digging a ditch with a shovel. Or changing out an overhead transformer. Try living on rabbit food and doing that.
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11/3/2009 11:28:04 PM
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Byron Bailey
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My oh my! Does this mean I should start cooking my daily dose of ramen noodles on the stove rather than the microwave?
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11/3/2009 11:31:41 PM
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Alex
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Mmmmmmmmm Cheesecake. Dowsed with a syrup made with mass quantities of homegrown Blueberries.
Pidgeonhole that!
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11/4/2009 9:16:11 AM
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Madison Bridgen
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Vegetables are now theraputic. We can cut down on drug expenses by perscribing bananas and oranges instead of Paxil.
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11/4/2009 10:30:09 AM
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Bill Moonroe
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Madison wrote:
Vegetables are now theraputic. We can cut down on drug expenses by perscribing bananas and oranges instead of Paxil.
Isn't Paxil what was put into the terraforming machines that sent the Reavers over the edge? Better than bananas and oranges, try licking toads and frogs.
It seems to me that the second you kill an animal, or pick a fruit or vegetable, some processing has begun. So, maybe Fidel Castro has it right with the live chicken diet, after all. Hasn't seemed to hurt him none.
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11/4/2009 11:28:59 AM
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Madison Bridgen
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In it's gaseous state, Paxil can totally do that. That's why the Paxil mines of northern Quebec can be quite fatal, as they are full for workers who turned into Reavers after breaking into gas pockets deep beneith the Earth. Most of the time the Paxil can be savely refined for psychiatric use, but many of the Reavers manage to escape the mines and get into government offices.
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11/4/2009 12:39:09 PM
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Kevin C.
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Going back over my reply to Marian, I was unduly snippy (and no I won't blame it on hunger). I apologize for that.
I think it says something to me that I can eat fruit and be hungry an hour later, but skip it and feel fine. I strongly suspect it's the sugars, and while complex carbohydrates generally doesn't cause this effect, it seems that fruit can still bring it about. To say hunger from sugar in junk food is bad and hunger from natural foods is good seems to miss the point that hungry is hungry regardless of the cause.
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