Do I looked depressed?
Posted on 04/29/2020 5:44:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Anchovy pizza for lunch made me happy. Almost as happy as the Prime Rib I cooked for myself last week.
“The researchers suggest that avoiding meat may be a “behavioral marker” indicating people already with poor mental health.”
One of our sons is a college athlete, he is so intense/controlled with his diet and exercise that it seems on the edge of a disorder. He works out hours a day, seven days a week-has for years. He is absolutely rigid about his food. Uses a kitchen scale to portion out every single thing he eats, won’t consume any sugars or dairy. Recently he mentioned that plant sourced protein is superior to meat and I discovered plant based “meat”balls in the fridge.
I’m concerned about his rigid control-the above statement seems to ring true in our home. He has lost his sense of humor and all joy in life He works like a dog at everything, yet seems to enjoy nothing but the control he has over himself :(.
He ran into a high school teammate who commented on how much weight our son had lost-he was never even close to overweight. Not sure how to help him.
I always wondered why i am so brilliant while at the same time not being a leftist...
Every adult veggie idiot, I have known in California was a depressive and vile liberal bastard, who drank too much wine and smoked too much pot.
After they turned 40, most were not in good health. If they made it past 50, they finally listened to their doctors to eat meat and go to normal diets. Then, they survived. The veggie diets/bs were the real killers not the pot unless they had lung cancer.
They seem to do okay with a Mediterranean/modified semi keto diets. Their saving grace was that most kept up their exercise and never became obese. Getting past age 70 for most of them, seemed to be an impossible task.
We have several sharp 90+ year old female friends. Besides an active life in a church, they never smoked, enjoy wine and have a great sense of humor. They evolved into what we would call a Med. diet. They network with similar women and have a great sense of humor. Many have buried at least one husband and some 2 to 3 husbands.
Add to their food habits:
Smoked dope/did drugs Teens to 20s 30s+ 40s+
Engaged in risky sexual practices “Safe sex” Homosexuality, BDSM et al
Had one or more abortions
Dressed Little Johnny as Little Joanie
Multiple fainting spells, with associated head injuries @ OCommie HilLIAR Bernie rallies
Automatically submitted to Authoritarian figures . . .excluding teachers, parents, God
As Fellow Dysfunctional David Bowie once sang “Is it any wonder?”
they feel bad about eating meat, therefore they feel bad about most things.
Veganism is an attention seeking disorder.
There’s a disorder called orthorexia where one obsesses over every part of their diet, ingredients, sourcing, every aspect has to be perfect (in their mind).
As far as the chicken and egg argument on the thread, which comes first, veganism or depression, I definitely feel some mentally ill people become vegan to draw attention to themselves, but I can see it working the other way as well.
So it might be a self selection bias.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5d/d9/d5/5dd9d5509614d96edcbc65f5f077f4a4.gif
Ye olde food chart pyramid tried and true.
Well, duh....
A vitamin B12 deficiency can explain that.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can be sneaky, harmful
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/vitamin-b12-deficiency-can-be-sneaky-harmful-201301105780
“Over the course of two months, a 62-year-old man developed numbness and a “pins and needles” sensation in his hands, had trouble walking, experienced severe joint pain, began turning yellow, and became progressively short of breath. The cause was lack of vitamin B12 in his bloodstream, according to a case report from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
It could have been worse—a severe vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to deep depression, paranoia and delusions, memory loss, incontinence, loss of taste and smell, and more.”
Name me one vegetarian that is a happy person.
Some people are not genetically adapted to vegetarian diet. Why the heck we keep letting these people promote their quack science.
Indeed, a temporary fad for city girls in their early 20s that goes away,
Similarly there is a new trend of young people saying they are bisexual or gay when they have never had a same sex partner and never intend to. It is like it makes them look cool. People are stupid.
No kidding. I always wondered why the Lord, in His wisdom, made so many of these “healthy” vegetables give you the wind something terrible.
Broccoli seems to be the worst.
The one thing that seems to help is that the more you eat of them, the better your digestive system seems to cope.
For example, I can eat beans in moderation now without having to pop any of those little enzyme pills. I’m planning some tostadas for lunch tomorrow. Mmmmmmm ...
I should also note I dropped a good deal of weight over the past year to help get my blood pressure/blood sugar under control. I don’t weigh myself often — that will drive you nuts — but I went from buckling my belt in the #2 hole to the #7 hole. That’s about five inches.
Pardon my boastfulness, but what’s the sense in losing a lot of weight if you can’t brag about it?
It's pretty much a given that when the whole world is laughing at you, that your personal obsession is dissed, that your lack of protein makes you stupid, that when you kill your children and pets with your crank dietary theories, you are going to be depressed about how the World doesn't understand...
I've got a New York strip in the freezer. In support of vegetarians, I'm gong to broil it, with Worcestershire sauce.
Probably it's a bit of both and also that many vegetarians don't get the right nutrition in their diet.
It's possible to be vegetarian and be quite happy, not that I am one, but I know some. They happen to also be positive people who are very careful about nutrition, and chose to be vegetarian NOT out of special-identity seeking but for specific reasons not related to virtue signaling nor being against eating the cute furry little creatures.
But I suspect a balanced non-veggie-only diet with not too much meat or too much of anything is the best way to go. Many vegetarians are carb and sugar hogs. There's a recipe for depression.
and they seem very serious about it.
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