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Analysis of the effects of nutrient intake and dietary habits on depression in Korean Adults
In this 2021 study, over ten thousand Korean adults were surveyed on their nutrient intake and eating habits. The aim was to analyze the link between nutrient intake and eating habits with depression, according to gender and age. The data indicated several significant correlations between depression and levels of cholesterol, dietary fiber, and sodium. In addition, depression was found to be strongly associated with frequency of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and eating out. There were also many relationships according to age and gender. For example, depression was related to sugar intake, and frequency of breakfast, lunch, and eating out among young women. While depression related to sodium and lunch frequency among middle-aged men, links with dietary fibers, breakfast, and eating out frequency were found among middle-aged women. More associations were discovered between depression with energy, moisture, carbohydrate, lunch, and dinner frequency (in late middle-aged men), with breakfast and lunch frequency (among late middle-aged women), vitamin A, carotene, lunch, and eating out frequency (among older age men), and fat, saturated fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6 fatty acid, and eating out frequency (among the older age women). These statistics can be used to form dietary strategies for depression prevention that consider factors such as gender and age. [NPID: Korea, Korean, adults, eating habits, dietary habits, diet, nutrition, nutrients, depression, depressive, age, older, elderly, women, men, young, breakfast, lunch, dinner, eating out, middle-aged, middle age]
Year: 2021
