Depression is a condition that affects approximately 5% of the world’s adult population and the symptoms that come with the disease can negatively affect a person’s life.
However, lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity can reduce the risk of depression.
In recent months, researchers have highlighted how dietary elections, exercises and medications used for other chronic conditions could affect the risk of developing depression.
Medications such as Ozempic are linked to a lower risk of depression. The condition is linked to a series of physical diseases, including diabetes. The data suggest that diabetic people are twice as probabilities that people without diabetes are also diagnosed with depression, according to Medical news today.
In addition, oranges can reduce the risk of the disease by 20%. As previously established, the diet plays an important role in maintaining distance depression and a study published in the magazine Microbioma In November 2024 he has deepened a little more in the details.
The study concluded that people who eat an orange every day can reduce their risk of depression by 20%.
Main author of the study, MD Raaj Mehta declared in a press release that only “One Medium Orange a day” can keep depression at bay.
In addition, moderate or vigorous exercise can also help reduce the risk of depression and other brain conditions. The research that will be presented in early April 2025 suggests that moderate to vigorous exercise in linking with a lower possibility of developing a range of neuropsychiatric diseases, such as dementia and depression.
