Is my Waist-to-Hip ratio making me depressed? Or maybe it’s my depression that’s causing me to overindulge in comfort foods, thus increasing my Waist-to-Hip ratio?
Either way, there seems to be a connection between these two. Very likely there’s a third hidden factor resulting in both! We need to spend some meditative quiet time and prayer investigating the hidden factor.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24028572
In a cross-sectional population based study, data on the first N = 5000 participants enrolled in the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) are reported. To analyze the relationship between depression and obesity, we computed linear regression models with the anthropometric measure (BMI, WC, WHR, WHtR) as the dependent variable and life style factors, cardiovascular risk factors and psychotropic medications as potential confounders of obesity/depression.
RESULTS:
We found that only the somatic (e.g., fatigue, sleep problems, and poor appetite), but not the cognitive-affective symptoms of depression (e.g., shame, guilt and negative self-image) are consistently positively associated with anthropometric measures of obesity.