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Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
Many factors contribute to the epidemic of overweight and obesity, but new research suggests that other people’s eating habits could be influencing your food intake more than you realize.The study, published online by PLoS One, examined the eating habits of 70 pairs of female strangers sharing dinner in a lab setting made to look like a restaurant. The authors observed the meal and assigned codes to each bite taken, noting whether it was within 5 seconds of the other woman’s bite. (“Mimicked bites” were those that were taken within 5 seconds of each other, and “nonmimicked bites” were those taken outside of the 5-second window.) Overall, both women mimicked each other, meaning they were more likely to take a bite along with their eating companion, rather than eat at their own pace.
Religion and Depression – Cause or Effect?
With the season of Easter and Passover upon us (significant celebrations in the lives of Christians and Jews, respectively), people who are not normally involved in religious activities seem to find their way back to sunrise services and family seders. Many studies have extolled the benefits of religious involvement on mental health and overall well-being, but a new study questions the associations and claims that depression and religious attendance may exhibit more cause-and-effect than previously believed.
Dietary Trans Fat Linked to Aggression
If you are what you eat, then, apparently, trans fatty acids are aggressive and prone to depression. A new observational study links dietary trans fat intake to adverse behaviors that affect others.Between 1999 and 2004, researchers evaluated the diets of nearly 1000 men and women. Their average age was 57 years, more than two-thirds of the group was male, and more than three-quarters was Caucasian. None of the participants had cholesterol extremes, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer at the time of enrollment.
Mortgage Mess or Mental Health Matter?
The last decade has brought record-high home foreclosures as part of the economic crisis that has gripped the United States. It is evident that these mortgage failures have affected more than just the housing market, bringing widespread implications to the job market, education, and national levels of debt. Home foreclosures may also significantly impact mental health -- a public health crisis in addition to an economic and financial one.
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