Depression is a disorder in which the mood loses its physiological character of flexibility, is reduced and is no longer influenced by positive situations.
The typical symptoms of diet-related depression are: alterations in appetite and weight loss (-5% per month) or, less frequently, a marked increase in appetite with consequent increase in body weight.
; this has negative effects on emotions and behavior. Some of these pharmacological principles also induce a sense of euphoria which gives way to a more or less severe depression upon discontinuation of therapy.Other drugs associated with weight loss diets favor the onset of moodiness, fatigue and sedation; the association of these molecules with antidepressants is absolutely contraindicated. In addition, the diet is often interpreted and performed in an irrational way, without specialist control, negatively affecting the state of nutrition of the subject. Both in predisposed and non-predisposed subjects, an inadequate low-calorie diet can promote depression.
and alcohol in the diet can adversely affect recovery from depression; the depressed person tends to abuse of certain substances in an attempt (in vain) to alleviate their suffering.
Coffee has a psychostimulating action and its repercussions on the nervous system (and therefore on depression) are dose dependent. In most depressed people, the worst moment of the day is waking up in the morning; therefore, the intake of coffee according to one's habits ( but avoiding its abuse), as well as normal, it could also be useful, it must necessarily be avoided its consumption in the evening.
The diet should not contain alcoholic beverages, as the disinhibiting action of this nerve worsens the emotional state of the subject suffering from depression. Furthermore, alcohol interferes with antidepressant therapies, worsening the undesirable effects: weakness, drowsiness, arterial hypotension w physical ailments of various kinds. This leads to a reduction in the effectiveness of the treatment.
