0 Lack of time with dad teen depression caused

Lack of time with dad teen depression caused - Currently no fewer adolescents with depression. Some have more levels of depression than other teens. What causes it? A study at the University of Bristol, England found the answer.

This study found that young women who often experience depression in adolescence is triggered by a lack of time spent by him along with his father as a child.

Researchers, published in Psychological Medicine found that girls whose father lost his father at the age of 0 to five years more prone to depression during adolescence than girls who left her father when she was five to 10 years. But apparently, the same does not apply to men.

These results were found after researchers conducted a long term study on children of 14,000 mothers during the years 1991-1992. Total, researchers looked at 5,631 children, as reported by the Huffington Post.

"This study shows the importance of the fathers role in the mental development of the child and its influence when the children get older," said Iryna Culpin, head of research.

0 Diabetes Increases Risk For Depression

Researchers reporting in the June 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine found:

"Among well-functioning older adults, DM [Diabetes Mellitus] is associated with increased risk of depressive symptoms."

Those whose diabetes was poorly controlled (whose HbA1c was > 7%) were particularly at risk.

It was a prospective study with a mean follow-up of 5.9 years. The 2522 participants, aged 70 to 79, were community-dwelling and did not have depression at the beginning of the study. (Although it was not known if depression existed prior to study entry.)

The causal mechanisms of a diabetes-depression association have not been unraveled. That is, we still dont know if one is primarily at the root of the other. This study however demonstrated that having diabetes can almost double the risk for depression (even after, as in this case, adjustments are made for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol intake, activity level, and baseline depression score).

Although this study observed that "depressive symptoms may be in part explained by the global burden of comorbidities and impairments associated with DM," they pointed out that other organic causes may be contributing, particularly those related to HbA1c levels.

This is one more data point in the diabetes-depression narrative.

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For the abstract:
Diabetes Mellitus, Glycemic Control, and Incident Depressive Symptoms Among 70- to 79-Year-Old Persons

0 Consumption Fast food Trigger Depression

Consumption Fast food Trigger Depression | Recent research by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and University of Granada Spain, indicating a link between consumption of baked goods (cookies, donuts, cup cakes, croissants) and fast food (hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza) the risk of suffering from depression.

As published in journal Public Health Nutrition, study revealed that those who frequently eat fast food, 51 percent more likely to experience depression than those who ate little or none at all.

Next, the researchers also examined relationships between dose and response. In other words this means that "the more you eat fast food, greater risk for developing depression," said Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, principal investigator of the study.

The study showed that individuals who ate fast food and eating most baked goods are more likely to live alone, less active and have poor dietary habits, including eating less fruit, nuts, fish, vegetables and olive oil.

A long-term study

The relationship between consumption of baked goods with depression is also not much different. "Even eating small portions associated with a significantly higher chance of experiencing depression," said researchers from the university Canary Islands.

In his study, researchers involved about 8964 participants who had never been diagnosed with depression or taking antidepressants. Each participant was observed for an average of six months, and 493 were diagnosed with depression or start consuming antidepressants.

The results showed that there were 657 new cases of depression of 12 059 people were analyzed for more than six months. Increased risk of depression by 42 percent was found in participants who consumed fast food.

Sánchez-Villegas concluded that "although more research is needed, the type of food intake must be controlled because it has an impact on health (obesity, cardiovascular disease) and mental."

Depression affects 121 million people around the world. This figure has been one of the major causes of disability worldwide. Furthermore, in countries with low income and middle-depression a major cause of disability.