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Feature articles on depression:

America's Soldiers Need Support on the War Front

4/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) Our American soldiers on the war front are finding it increasingly difficult to get the mental health care they need. As violence rose in Afghanistan, new tactics have been employed, which in turn pushed our troops there farther away from...

Omega-6 fatty acids found to be dietary cause of depression, heart disease

3/18/2008 - (NaturalNews) Researchers found a correlation between a higher omega-6-to-omega-3 blood ratio and the occurrence of depression, as well as the occurrence of inflammation-promoting compounds in the blood, according to a small study published in the journal...

Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness: Immediate Consumer Action Needed to Stop Mothers Act

3/17/2008 - The Mothers Act is pending legislation that will indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of mothers into taking dangerous psych drugs. It is a great example of how the Big Pharma lobby controls Congress to the detriment of health, as well as needlessly and...

MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers with Antidepressants to "Treat" Postpartum Depression

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma...

Diet Sweeteners Can Make You Sick and Fat

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) If you are among those calorie-conscious consumers who opt for diet sodas or other diet products, you may actually ruin your health and become fat, according to several new studies. A Purdue University study published 10 February 2008...

Finding Happiness the Natural Way

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) In a blue funk. Apathetic. High-strung. Premenstrual woman from hell. Enervated. Grouchy. Spacey. Turning on the waterworks for no real reason. Swinging from repressed fear to rage like an angst-ridden green monster. Do any of these describe...

Psych Drug Shocker: Antidepressant Drugs Work No Better than Placebo; Big Pharma Hoax Finally Exposed

2/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a groundbreaking report from the independent, honest medical journal PLoS Medicine (which accepts no advertising money from Big Pharma). The full study, with sources and attributions, can be found at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045 This...

The Right Type of Fats for Health and Longevity

2/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) If there is one supplement that we can all benefit from, it would have to be Omega-3 fatty acids. Eskimo people have proven this over the ages with their diet comprising of over 50% of their total calorie intake from fish and fish oil -...

Rhodiola Herbal Extract Found to Fight Off Depression

2/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new clinical trial has found that an extract of the herb Rhodiola could be a useful treatment for cases of mild to moderate depression. The study, published in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, involved 80 participants, aged between...

Herbal Rhodiola Extract Found to Increase Lifespan

1/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) Rhodiola rosea is now, according to recent research, becoming more widely accepted in the U.S. as a powerful anti-aging, anti-stress formula. In today's culture with stress coming from every direction, this comes as good news and a possible...

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma's case, the pursuit...

Mold in the Home Linked to Mood Swings, Depression

12/28/2007 - (NaturalNews) People living in a moldy home may be more likely to suffer from depression, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Brown School of Medicine in Providence, R.I., and published in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers...

Depression, Osteoporosis Correlation Misreported by Junk Science Media, Ill-Informed Health Researchers

12/11/2007 - Conventional medical researchers around the world are scratching their heads over new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that shows a strong correlation between depression and osteoporosis. Amazingly, none of them apparently have...

Acomplia weight loss drug may cause psychiatric side effects in 10 percent of users

12/11/2007 - (NaturalNews) European health agencies have warned that the weight-loss drug rimonabant -- marketed as Acomplia, Zimulti, Riobant, Rimoslim and Slimona -- may cause dangerous psychological side effects, including suicidal thoughts. Rimonabant acts...

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression

12/6/2007 - (NaturalNews) America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the 19-year-old Hawkins killed himself...

Depression is over-diagnosed and over-treated, says top psychiatrist

12/4/2007 - (NaturalNews) Leading mental health researcher Gordon Parker says that psychiatrists are too quick to diagnose and treat people for depression. Parker made his claims in an article in the British Medical Journal. Criticizing the current diagnosis guidelines...

Suicide Link to Acne Drug Officially Established

12/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) A clear chemical link has been established between the acne drug Roaccutane and the history of depression and suicide associated with its usage, according to researchers at the University of Bath.  Writing in the journal Experimental...

Exercise: The Miracle Antidepressant Drug?

11/27/2007 - (NaturalNews) Common wisdom holds that exercise boosts your mood, in addition to benefiting your physical health. Terms such as “endorphins” and “runner’s high” are afloat in the popular lexicon. If you are a person who exercises...

Damp Moldy Conditions Got You Down?

10/28/2007 - (NaturalNews) You may notice mold in your home by its musty smell or those unsightly spreading blotches on shower curtains, ceilings or walls. What you might not associate with mold is an emotional problem. But an article in the October issue of American...

The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease exports

5/29/2007 - History tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this desire for strategic...

Omega 3: A Possible Treatment for Depression (press release)

11/20/2006 - With kids as young as 3 years old being given medications for depression, and as old as 95, what’s the real truth in this rush to label each other, ourselves, and the entire planet as “depressed”? In a study conducted by the Yale Prevention Research...

Fibromyalgia’s New Foe: High-Tech Medical Device Shows Increasing Efficacy for the Debilitating Symptoms of FMS (press release)

10/26/2006 - Fibromyalgia patients worldwide are seeing rapid improvement in their symptoms from a high-tech medical device indicated for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and pain. The device...

The top five foods for beating depression

10/3/2006 - Drug advertisements and conventional doctors tell the public that depression is caused by an imbalance of a neurotransmitter in the brain called serotonin. This idea makes it seem that drugs that flood the brain with serotonin are the answer to depression,...

The four steps to getting more vitamin D to prevent cancer, osteoporosis, depression and more

9/25/2006 - After years of denying the health benefits of sunlight, conventional researchers are finally starting to recognize the important role that ultraviolet light plays in human health. Getting sunlight on your skin, research now shows, is extremely important...

Popular acne drug found to cause depression, suicide

9/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) The acne drug Accutane has been implicated in an increase in feelings of depression among adolescent users, and while the link has never been proven, researchers at the University of Bath and the University of Texas in Austin have gathered...

Study shows strong link between obesity and depression (press release)

9/6/2006 - There is a strong link between obesity and mood and anxiety disorders, especially among Caucasian Americans and those with more education and higher income, according to an analysis conducted by researchers from Group Health Center for Health Studies....

Anxious, depressed people over 65 turn more often to alternative therapies (press release)

9/5/2006 - People over 65 who are depressed or anxious turn to complementary or alternative medicine more often than older people who are not anxious or depressed – but not to treat their mental symptoms. Joseph. G. Grzywacz, Ph.D., and colleagues from Wake...

Rise in Mental Illness Linked to Unhealthy Diets, Say Studies (press release)

8/31/2006 - Changes in diet over the past 50 years appear to be an important factor behind a significant rise in mental ill health in the UK, say two reports published today. The Mental Health Foundation says scientific studies have clearly linked attention...

Antidepressants Associated With Increased Risk of Diabetes in Pre-Diabetics (press release)

8/28/2006 - The use of antidepressant drugs was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people who were already at greater risk of the disease – and this effect was not seen in those taking the drug metformin, according to...

Omega-3 fatty acids may help kids with depression (press release)

8/24/2006 - Treatment with omega-3 fatty acids, the type found in fish oils, appears to benefit children suffering from clinical depression, according to pilot study conducted in Israel. The results of some studies in adults with major depressive disorder have...

TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill

8/23/2006 - Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly...

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