Time to trade your soda for a cold brew? There’s the old saying “you are what you eat,” but new research suggests your drink choice really could be affecting your mental health.
A study recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that regularly consuming drinks sweetened with sugar and artificial flavors was linked to an increased risk of developing conditions such as anxiety and depression in young and middle-aged adults. More positively, drinking coffee and fruit juice appeared to have the opposite effect, correlating with lower levels of depression and anxiety in people of all the ages studied.
This “underscores the potential relationship of prudent beverage choices in mitigating the risk of mental health,” the study’s authors stated.
Researchers from Wenzhou Medical University in China came to these conclusions after analyzing data collected from over 180,000 participants involved in the UK-Biobank project, a biomedical database containing detailed genetic ...
