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Cutting down on meat could lead to depression
A study is suggesting that women are at risk of depression if they cut down on lamb and beef. The findings came somewhat of a surprise to the researchers because the findings from other studies in the...Older people get more sleep
Perhaps the phrase sleeping like a baby isn’t so accurate after all! Research from the Center for Sleep at Pennsylvania University found the quality of sleep improves greatly with age. A study o...Depression fear for older mothers
A new study suggests that older mothers are five times more likely to suffer from depression after childbirth. Increased stress levels in pregnancy were blamed for the higher rates of depression in ol...The benefits of coffee
Coffee is often thought of as a guilty pleasure, but there’s actually a lot of benefits to it. Coffee prevents depression – Research from Harvard Medical School shows that women who drink ...Magic mushrooms to beat depression
A clinical trial of “magic mushroom therapy” could take place within a year to try and beat depression. Depressed patients, who can’t be helped by drugs or behaviour-based psychother...The cause of depression?
A Stanford University study has found that depression could be caused by crossed wires in the brain that stop people experiencing pleasure. MRI scans showed demonstrated the extent of the differences ...Thousands suffer silently from postnatal depression
A report by the charity 4Children, says that every year 35,000 new mothers in England and Wales struggle with symptoms of postnatal depression (PND) and don’t get the professional help that they...Coffee prevents depression
Research from the Harvard Medical School team shows that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to get depressed. It isn’t yet entirely clear why, but the researchers b...Beating depression is a ‘lottery’
Wow, it really seems as though where you live can have a massive impact on your health, with last weeks story about bowel cancer (which you can read here) and now it turns out that beating depression ...Middle-aged Britons ‘least healthy’ in the world
According to a study by Bupa Health Plus, middle-aged British people are more likely to be obese, smoke and have depression than those of their age group around the world. Over 13,000 people from 12 c...
