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We all know how good we feel when we are getting plenty of fat. Almost like a high. I have come up with a theory about why so many people seem to suffer from depression. I think it comes from eating a low fat diet. When did all this hoopla about low fat start? Oh, about 20 years ago. Isn't that about when we started hearing about this epidemic of depression? I may be way off base but it sounds right to me.
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Re: A theory
It isn't that simple. I know people without depression who became depressed, neurotic and suicidal from following an high fat very low carb diet. It must have something to do with their serotonin metabolism. If they add carbohydrates (not much but more than most high fat diets allow) all the symptoms disappeared.
A psychiatrist wrote an article to describe how the psychological issue of his patients improved to the point of disappearing with a no sugar, high protein but not high fat diet. All the people were positive to glucose intolerance.
The high protein did the trick not the high fat.
Depression is complex but recent investigations show that it is triggered by excessive dreaming. Dreaming occurs in the deep sleep phase which is an energy robber. It's the kind of dreamless, less deep and longer phase of sleep which is restful. The onset of depression always being with a feeling of being unrested after a night sleep. There's a strong relationship between too much dreaming, unrestful sleep and depressive ruminating in the morning, excessive thinking obsessively about something or remember sad facts.
By the way: people have never followed a lot fat diet.
People have never been good at following instructions from whatever institution, they usually do the opposite of what they have been told.
In spite of the populatory of low fat foods among conscious dieters, normal people (including those with depression) have been eating a normal western diet high in sugar and fats (expecially combined together) and low in protein. The low fat high carb diet (an evil invention for sure) promoted whole grains, legumes, no sweets, no fast food, little oil, lean meats, lot of fish. The population never ate like that, except few diet obsessed individuals.
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