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2019-02-28 Science & Technology

A Strange Relationship Between Vegetarianism and Depression

h/t Instapundit
[PsychologyToday] ... I was surprised to learn from a new review article by Daniel Rosenfeld of Cornell University in the journal Appetite that reported vegetarians are more likely to be depressed than meat-eaters. Intrigued, I took a deeper look at this body of research. I located 11 peer-reviewed papers on the topic published between 2007 and 2018. Rosenfeld was right. Here’s what I found in each of them:
Followed by theorizing. Of course, one could just go to Google Scholar and type "meat, chimpanzee"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-28 03:13|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Which way does the causation go?

Posted by james 2019-02-28 08:21|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2019-02-28 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Meat eaters are much happier I have found. I have also been told they don't leave any longer. Just my life experiences.

Posted by Dale 2019-02-28 08:41|| 2019-02-28 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Ratatouille may be good, but it will never be beef tenderloin good.

Some personal observations:

I see a lot of vegetarian dishes trying to disguise themselves as meat, such as tofu 'burgers'. I don't see many meat dishes disguising themselves as vegetarian, such as pulled pork 'pasta'.

Vegetarian evangelicals don't seem to be having much fun; its always 'beans really do have enough protein to live on', 'kale tastes good really'. Carnivore evangelicals have the BBQ song from yesterday. I don't think a single band member was concerned that a stomach settler sponsored the video.

In the land where meat is a luxury, the person who brought the bags of beef jerky is lord.

There are good reasons to have a low meat, even no meat diet. Absolutely there are people who use that lifestyle as leverage in social situations, known them, depression would be a mild way to put it. Maybe not sociopaths. Maybe. I've seen vegetarians invited to the omnivore's table, and demand vegetarian dishes. I've seen omnivore invited to the vegetarian's table, and the vegetarian spent the meal trying to convince the others that the pressed and textured tofu was really chicken. It was some real 2+2=5 crap.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-28 11:35|| 2019-02-28 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 "I see a lot of vegetarian dishes trying to disguise themselves as meat, such as tofu 'burgers'. I don't see many meat dishes disguising themselves as vegetarian, such as pulled pork 'pasta'."

While I agree 98% I've had a number of Indian dishes where I wonder why they bothered to add chicken because you simply couldn't taste it with the saunces and such.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-02-28 14:29|| 2019-02-28 14:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Totally agree, Indian food lot of times meat is in the way. Now, tandoori chicken (Homer Simpson drool, falls off the chair).

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-28 15:50|| 2019-02-28 15:50|| Front Page Top

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