{"id":2761,"date":"2025-06-04T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/dieting-causes-depression\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:04:53","slug":"dieting-causes-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/dieting-causes-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieting causes depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-04 14:04:52<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Diets can cause depression.<BR><br \/>\nA new study has confirmed that cutting calories is connected to a higher risk of depression, particularly in men.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at the University of Toronto examined data from over 28,500 adults who were followed for more than a decade. They completed surveys on their typical daily food intake and any diets they were following, as well as clinical assessments of depression.<BR><br \/>\nParticipants on low-calorie diets scored more highly in the tests for depressive symptoms &#8211; including feeling tired, having trouble concentrating or &#8220;little interest or pleasure in doing things&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers wrote in the journal BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health: &#8220;Our study suggests that caloric-restricted diets are the only dietary pattern that is associated with significantly increased depressive symptom scores compared with those not on a diet.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe study authors explained that this is because restricting food leads to &#8220;nutritional deficiencies&#8221; in protein and vitamins, which worsen brain function and result in a low mood.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-04 14:04:52 Diets can cause depression. A new study has confirmed that cutting calories is connected to a higher risk of depression, particularly in men. Experts at the University of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}