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Is There A Link Between Fast Food And Depression?

快餐和抑郁之间有联系吗？

According to data posted on McDonalds’ famous Golden Arches, the fast food giant has served billions of customers around the world. It’s safe to assume that other fast food purveyors such as Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and others have dished out a roughly equal amount of fried chicken, burgers, and fries.

Depending on how you look at it, this is alternately impressive and highly alarming. Impressive insofar as it testifies to the dizzyingly successful business models of fast food chains. And alarming because typical fast food meals are high in calories, salt, fat, and sugar.

And now, according to a recent study, it’s possible that eating fast food also raises your risk for depression.

The study, done by researchers at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada, followed nearly 9,000 participants for six months none of whom had been diagnosed with depression or had taken antidepressants. They found that those who ate the most fast food were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression as those who ate little or none.

Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that eating fast food causes depression. It






could be the other way around that people who become depressed for whatever reason tend to eat more fast food. But while it’s not certain that consuming fast food causes depression, the chance that it might is yet another reason to get off the fast food track and opt for more healthful options.



根据发布在麦当劳著名的金色拱门上的数据显示，这个快餐业巨头已经服务了全球数十亿的顾客。这就可以大胆假设，诸如汉堡王、肯德基等其他快餐供应商供应的炸鸡、汉堡和薯条的数量和麦当劳相同。

这可能既给你留下深刻的印象又使你高度警觉。印象深刻是因为它证明了令人眼花缭乱的快餐连锁店成功的商业模式。令人震惊是因为快餐食品普遍具有高卡路里、高盐、高脂肪和高糖的特点。

而现在，根据一份最新研究显示，吃快餐可能会增加患抑郁症的风险。 这份研究是由拉斯帕马斯大学和格拉纳达大学的研究人员共同完成的，历时6个月，跟踪调查了近9000名参与者，这些人此前并未患过抑郁症或服用过任何抗抑郁药物。研究人员发现那些快餐吃得最多的人被诊断为患抑郁症的可能性几乎是那些吃得少或者不吃快餐的人的两倍。

但这并不一定就意味着吃快餐会导致抑郁症。也可能是那些因某种原因患有抑郁症的人更爱吃快餐。尽管不能确定吃快餐会导致抑郁，但患上抑郁症的风险也应让我们有理由远离快餐，去寻求更健康的饮食方式。

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