Is Your Diet Making You Moody?

'How many people do you know who are on a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet? How many people do you know who are on antidepressants? Is there a link?

Julia Ross, a clinical psychologist and author of The Mood Cure, sees a connection between the skyrocketing rates of depression and the diet obsession in this country. Statistics show: We are 100 times more depressed than we were in 1900; fully 50% of Americans over the age of 14 are experiencing "significant debilitating depression and/or anxiety;" and in the past two decades antidepressants have become the third largest class of prescription drugs.' 

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