I'm a middle-aged man, so maybe I'm all about metabolic syndrome, but what?
I'm really worried about the meat around my abdomen, but it's been said that depression medicine makes it easier for me to gain weight.
And it is said that "obesity is associated with depression".
BMI is used as a general indicator to measure obesity, but since BMI is like a combination of height and weight, it is well known which part of the body is associated with obesity. It seems that there is no such thing, but what about other than BMI? That's why he studied the relationship between body shape and depression at Truman State University in the United States.
The content of the survey is said to have been analyzed from the data of the 2007-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, targeting 23,739 adults aged 20 and over.
After classifying by age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc., the relationship between depressive symptoms and body shape was investigated.
So, the main results are as follows.
Weight and BMI, not height, were predictors of depressive symptoms.
Adults with relatively high body weight or BMI (top 30-40% of women, top 10% of men) had a substantially higher prevalence of depressive symptoms (d ≥ 0.20) within gender.
The range of BMI that predicted increased depressive symptoms in women (BMI ≥ 30) and men (BMI ≥ 36) was higher than the standard definition of overweight and obesity, respectively.
In other words, it seems that the fact that obese people have a higher rate of depressive symptoms concludes that obesity has a higher risk of developing depression.
I think it depends on the cause of obesity, but the correlation is that if you have depressive symptoms, you will be tired of doing anything, you will be lacking in exercise, your eating habits will be disturbed, and you will eat a healthy diet. It is possible that you will become obese because it disappears, but on the contrary, it may also affect your mental aspect from obesity symptoms.
After all, one of the ways to alleviate the depressive symptom is to adjust the lifestyle, so when the depressive symptom is relieved, I think it will eventually approach the standard system.
Well, when the symptoms of depression are severe, it is said that "If you can improve your lifestyle, you will not get depressed!", But to prevent depression, you should also be careful about obesity. ..
By the way, unfortunately it seems that you can't lose weight by running.
However, it seems to be a little effective in alleviating depressive symptoms.