Here’s Today’s Feel-Good Story:

Research recently posted in Nature Mental Health by researchers including those from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University has identified several lifestyle factors that can lead to a lower risk of depression.

Such factors include:

• Lowering alcohol consumption
• healthy diet
• not smoking
• frequent social connections

“Although our DNA – the genetic hand we’ve been dealt – can increase our risk of depression, we’ve shown that a healthy lifestyle is potentially more important.” said Professor Barbara Sahakian, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge

“Some of these lifestyle factors are things we have a degree of control over, so trying to find ways to improve them – making sure we have a good night’s sleep and getting out to see friends, for example – could make a real difference to people’s lives.”

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