tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post8465211868772929507..comments2023-06-05T11:51:38.383-04:00Comments on Evolutionary Psychiatry: Diet, Depression, and AnxietyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-57321642121355911172011-01-23T18:27:09.915-05:002011-01-23T18:27:09.915-05:00Hey I was wondering if you knew any ways to develo...Hey I was wondering if you knew any ways to develop self confidence? I have become very self conscious over that last year... (Im a 20 year old male) and I need to fix this :(. Any ideas?Bronson1111https://www.blogger.com/profile/05585032271010142194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-4249630005640614692010-08-29T00:49:21.590-04:002010-08-29T00:49:21.590-04:00Hi from Australia
Here, chips are the hot ones: w...Hi from Australia<br /><br />Here, chips are the hot ones: wedges of potato deep fried in oil. Maybe a bit thicker (usually) than your fries. <br /><br />Meat pies are pies of pasty containing meat and gravy. Eat with tomato sauce on top. Good convenient meal (eat with one hand) for sports events. Not sure the % of meat or the quality of meat in them, suspect its the reject meat!<br /><br />Just found your blog from a post on Mark's Daily Apple: trying out a primal diet. Fascinated by some of your blogs about the psych and other metabolic effects and I thik I will be a regular reader. Thanks Emily!nmeganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08338538064090859253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-16085383339049281182010-06-25T10:28:18.697-04:002010-06-25T10:28:18.697-04:00Jamie - I would say in my practice, almost everyon...Jamie - I would say in my practice, almost everyone with IBS has concomitant anxiety. But of course, that isn't exactly a random sampling. Also, "Generalized Anxiety Disorder" is characterized by general worry and physical symptoms (headaches, muscle aches, GI distress), so almost anyone with IBS who walks into my office and is a "worrier" can meet criteria for GAD. I'll definitely look at those links. There's also a strong link between bipolar disorder and the inflammatory bowel diseases. <br /><br />Steve - No, it's not the world's greatest study. But largish dietary trials and data are few and far between in psychiatry, so I take what I can get. There is a vegetarian study (the seventh day adventist study), a Japanese study, and a gluten-free diet study in celiac patients (brand new - June 10 2010). I'll go over those in the next post. <br /><br />Interestingly, the researchers also came up with an "overall diet quality score" based upon Australian food guidelines (similar to the USDA guidelines) - the closer the diet came to the guidelines, the higher the diet quality score. There was no additional protection from a "high quality" diet against depression and anxiety, once one adjusted the data for age, socioeconomic status, education, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption. Only the "traditional" pattern stood out as protective.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429177284200775781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-49076967443680276082010-06-25T08:08:34.612-04:002010-06-25T08:08:34.612-04:00What's a meat pie? As I child, my mother serv...What's a meat pie? As I child, my mother served us commercial chicken pot pies: chicken bits, a few veggies, and God-knows-what-else cooked in a pie crust for about an hour in the oven.<br /><br />Once the researchers collect to dietary data, they can always go back and devise various diet scores and look for associations. I'm sure they could come up with a paleo diet score and run the numbers, if they were interested.<br /><br />Same for a low-carb diet score and Mediterranean diet score.<br /><br />Seems to me that there's a lot of overlap between these eating styles. I'm not too impressed witht the strength of this study.<br /><br />"Data dredging" comes to mind.<br /><br />-SteveSteve Parker, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13127995984175635389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045634714760830992.post-57021412979625452192010-06-24T19:04:51.695-04:002010-06-24T19:04:51.695-04:00Emily,
Not Australian - I'm a Kiwi (some woul...Emily,<br /><br />Not Australian - I'm a Kiwi (some would say that is a good thing). A chip in these parts refers to French Fries (or Freedom Fries if you still call them that!). However, our chips (from fish & chip shops) are generally a lot thicker than French Fries.<br /><br />Confusingly, we also call our potato chips 'chips' as well (though we sometimes call them crisps also).<br /><br />On the anxiety front, have you read much that links teh likes of gluten intolerance, IBS, etc, with higher anxiety states? I have seen a little bit and clinical experience suggests this to be true.<br /><br />There is a great series of articles that are freely available titled "Stress and the Gastrointestinal Tract" - a couple here:<br /><br />http://ajpgi.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/280/4/G519<br /><br />http://ajpgi.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/280/2/G173Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com