It\u2019s well known that Japan\u2019s washoku diet, which is rich in fish, soy beans and vegetables, is good for one’s health. Now, a large-scale study says it may also help prevent depression.<\/p>\n
In the research, published in the Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences journal earlier this month, researchers surveyed about 12,500 workers at five major companies in Japan between 2018 and 2021. About 88% of the respondents were men, and their average age was 42.5. Out of the total, 30.9% said they were depressive and suffered from symptoms such as feeling despondent or demoralized.<\/p>\n
The scientists asked participants how frequently they consumed certain foods and drinks during the previous week, then came up with a 0-to-9 scale that showed how closely they followed a traditional Japanese diet, which includes white rice, fish, miso soup, soy products, cooked vegetables, salty foods, mushrooms, seaweed and green tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s well known that Japan\u2019s washoku diet, which is rich in fish, soy beans and vegetables, is good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[1301,26741,1203,105,88907,218,14202,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-depression","9":"tag-diets","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-japanese-cuisine","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-surveys","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114769959601172968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}