• Have you experienced a

decrease or increase in
appetite?
– Or if you weigh 100 pounds,
have you gained or lost 5
pounds or more?
– If you weigh 150 pounds,
have you gained or lost 7
pounds or more?
– If you weigh 200 pounds,
have you gained or lost 10
pounds or more?
• The diagnosis does not give any indication to the
cause of the disease.
• If we want to increase the likelihood of a long
term solution, we will identify the causes of
depression and systematically treat them.
• Unfortunately this is not as simple a process as
prescribing a drug.
• Like most chronic diseases, depression is a
multifactorial disease.
• The most effective treatments will be based on an
all-fronts attack on as many causes identified to be
operative.
• Japanese fare is characterized by a lower protein
diet and is associated with an average age of
menstruation of 17.
• Here, in the U.S. with our higher protein diet, that
age is as low as 12.
• Recent study of 67 white females in the United
States
• The higher the animal protein intake at ages three
to five, the earlier the first menstrual period.
• Girls that consumed higher amounts of vegetable
protein at ages three to five had a much later onset
of menstruation.
Catherine S. Berkey American Journal of Epidemiology
2000;152:446-452
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