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":3,"featured_media":12704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6017,6922,990,210,22671,517,10893,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-25492","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-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114768834936878682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}