New Delhi (NVI): If the depression patients keep their diet right, they may get rid of their problem, study said.
According to a recent study published in the journal PLOS one, if depression patients take the right diet instead of medicines, they get benefit quickly.
Depression is considered dangerous because it starts to worsen not only your brain but also physical health.
Medical science has anti-depressant drugs available to treat depression, which is used by many people.
But after a recent study, scientists have said that if you resort to the right diet instead of medicines, then you will get benefit quickly.
It is also worth noting here that after many previous studies, scientists have reported that prolonged use of anti-depressant drugs can be dangerous to your health.
Therefore, this research should be considered as a piece of relief news for the patients of depression.
If the depression patients keep their diet right, then they can easily get rid of depression.
Depression is dangerous
According to Heather Francis of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, depression is a dangerous disease. Often people see it only by connecting it to the brain, but this disease affects the whole body.
Depression is a kind of chronic inflammatory reaction of the body. Usually, this inflammation comes due to poor diet and stress.
A person who is suffering from depression becomes so mentally weak that he and she has trouble living a normal life and sometimes some people even commit suicide.
Make these small changes in food
The people with depression were told to make some small changes in their diet like including olive oil in their diet.
It was also asked to include natural nut butter, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon and turmeric etc.
While all patients were instructed to reduce their intake of carbohydrate foods, sugar, fat and processed meats and soft drinks. Only after following this diet for three weeks, the depression of these people decreased and they became normal.
How the research was done?
Francis and his team selected seventy-six such people who were victims of depression or severe anxiety for this research.
All of them were between seventeen and thirty-five years of age which included both men and women.
Fat and sugar were very much included in the regular diet (of all of them) due to depression.
But during the three-week study, these people changed their diet and scientists found that their depression levels had decreased.
