Obesity might be one of the causes of depression, study suggests

A meta-analytic review of previous studies indicates that obese individuals have an increased risk of depression and that this relationship isn’t just correlational — obesity might be one of the causes of depression. The researchers argue that the increased occurrence of depression in the population in recent decades might be at least partly due to the increase in obesity. The study was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. Obesity is a medical condition where a person has too much body fat. It is determined by calculating a person’s body mass index (BMI) using their height and wei...