![]() ![]() Plus, weight management issues on their own can be depressing. “When this emotional part of the brain gets disturbed in someone who is depressed, appetite gets disturbed as well.” ![]() ![]() Why are depression and weight issues so intertwined? “The part of the brain responsible for emotion - the limbic system - also controls appetite,” explains Joseph Hullett, MD, senior medical director of clinical strategy for OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions in Golden Valley, Minn. In fact, a study done in the Netherlands found that obesity increases the risk for depression in initially non-depressed people by 55 percent, and depression increases the risk for obesity in initially normal-weight people by 58 percent. Symptoms of depression and weight management issues are linked, and the relationship is a two-way street. Which comes first, obesity or depression? Just like “the chicken or the egg” scenario, the underlying problem with depression and weight gain (or weight loss) can be hard to tell.
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