{"id":1837,"date":"2009-11-02T07:23:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2009-11-02T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T07:25:08","slug":"burgers-and-bacon-how-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/11\/burgers-and-bacon-how-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgers and Bacon &#8211; How Depressing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Journal of Psychiatry reports that a diet high in processed food tends to make you depressed, while a diet of vegetables, fruit and fish is, surprise surprise, better for your mental as well as your physical health.<\/p>\n<p>Those who ate the most whole foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who at the least whole foods. By contrast people with a diet high in processed food had a 58% higher risk of depression than those who ate very few processed foods. (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8334353.stm\">via BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has also worked in a burger bar, I can also state categorically that the processed food industry is also bad for your mental health. I survived it, but then I only worked a couple of months, and during that time I was subjected to the most disgusting conditions, mainly due to people&#8217;s slovenly eating habits, bad management and attempts at physical harassment from my low IQ co-workers. It was relatively easy for me to outsmart them but just the same, it&#8217;s not nice to set off for a 12 hour shift not knowing whether you&#8217;re going to be threatened, followed home or witness the sight of leering sexual misconduct in the pitiful boxroom which stood for a staffroom.<\/p>\n<p>Still, back to the point. Of course mental and physical health are connected &#8211; via the brain, stupid! <\/p>\n<p>In my electricity cabinet (where else?) I keep a list of foods which a very kind person gave me a decade ago when I was depressed. I&#8217;m not going to type it out, but it&#8217;s worth taking with you so I have CC-licensed it and offer it up for you to print out and blue-tack to the inside of your own cupboard door.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it includes lobster and crab, though not caviar. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deekster\/4067144073\/\" title=\"Foods For Good Mental Health by deanwhitbread, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3502\/4067144073_084bbbf8e1_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"\" alt=\"Foods For Good Mental Health\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Journal of Psychiatry reports that a diet high in processed food tends to make you depressed, while a diet of vegetables, fruit and fish is, surprise surprise, better for your mental as well as your physical health. Those who ate the most whole foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[11,313,399],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-depression","tag-food","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}