This has nothing to do with ‘plant based milk.’ Oats and water make you depressed in a milk? But oatmeal is fine? Oh, sure. If not just made up, it has to do with missing some nutrients in cow’s milk. What a completely absurd infuriating headline. Someone needs to investigate who pays for this study
Typically Telegraph headline which seems to have a thing against vegan/vego diets
There is plenty of dietary value in the study, including differentiating between milk types, and there is only an "association" not a cause/effect link, but no, they have to go full-bore in the headline and lede
Full disclosure, I am flexitarian, I had a beef mince meal yesterday at a local eatery, it is the first meat I have eaten in probably 5 months, my wife is vego
I keep 3 cows and milk 1/2 of them as house cows, drinking their milk, making cheese, yoghurt and kefir
We keep chickens and eat their eggs
It might be me, but it seems every news article about this doesn't link the original study. The closest thing I could find is this (based on Google Scholar results for "uk biobank milk depression" from 2025) which has its own incredibly detailed infographic to speculate over
Without checking the data, I'd say the correlation is plausible: from experience, vegans are far more likely to be mindful of the state of the world than the average.
I'll leave it to the reader why that would make one more likely to be depressed.
Couldn't access the article, but the causation doesn't seem right. I would rather say: people who are aware of the environmental crisis are more depressed than people who don't give a fuck. So, they try to do something about it, and among other things, stop eating animal products.
TLDR: It’s the absence of calcium in plant based milk, when compared to cow milk. One the other hand, the saturated fats in cow milk also makes you depressed.
My B12 supplement contains calcium, so I should be fine.
Except the study didn't evaluate any of that, which is all pure speculation. The study only observed a correlation.
It'd be tough to rule out "constantly witnessing genocide and being bullied for objecting to it" as a reason for poorer mental health outcomes, before concluding it was calcium.
Behind a paywall. From what I saw, seems they’re trying to attribute cause of anxiety to plant based milks. Would like to see the study design that supported that claim. Did they run a randomized experiment?
Of course they're depressed. They don't like suffering.
The key to a "happy" life is to revel in the suffering of beings you deem lesser, and hide your own suffering so the others won't smell blood and attack.
I'd rather just be depressed, though. It's easier on my soul.
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I couldn't read the article, but it's probably an example of jumping to conclusions as to cause and effect, when some correlation is found.
I would not be surprised about a correlation between being vegan and being depressed, since vegans are typically people who care […]
There is plenty of dietary value in the study, including differentiating between milk types, and there is only an "association" not a cause/effect link, but no, they have to go full-bore in the headline and lede
I keep 3 cows and milk 1/2 of them as house cows, drinking their milk, making cheese, yoghurt and kefir
We keep chickens and eat their eggs
This one mentioned participant # and journal (Frontiers in Nutrition) so it's this: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.1435435/full
As usual, news article misrepresents what it says...
Yeah, I figured, considering "corr" and "causal" didn't bring up anything useful in these articles haha
Key conclusion: "findings indicate that semi-skimmed milk consumption may be linked to a lower risk of depression and anxiety."
Freely available research paper w/ limitations section 👏
I'll leave it to the reader why that would make one more likely to be depressed.
Ignorance indeed is bliss, it seems.
#vegan #plantbased #meat #cadaverfood
My B12 supplement contains calcium, so I should be fine.
The comment section though … 🙈
It'd be tough to rule out "constantly witnessing genocide and being bullied for objecting to it" as a reason for poorer mental health outcomes, before concluding it was calcium.
Maybe it has something to do with capitalism...
The key to a "happy" life is to revel in the suffering of beings you deem lesser, and hide your own suffering so the others won't smell blood and attack.
I'd rather just be depressed, though. It's easier on my soul.