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How to deal with crippling anxiety
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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A study came out showing that anxiety and other mental health issues can be drastically reduced by eating a lot of raw fruit and veg: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00487/full
You should be careful taking the conclusions of single studies too seriously. Due to the methods underlying statistical significance testing, results from signal studies are highly unreliable and should be taken with a large grain of salt.
Additionally, the study you linked is not an intervention, therefore there is a high likelihood that unknown covariates had an impact on the observed group differences.
Of course, one's scepticism should be in proportion to an intervention's risk, and eating more fruit and vegetables seems, naively, quite low risk.
I actually tried this myself before I developed a load of food intolerances. I hanged nothing but adding a lot of raw fruit and veg and withing a week the difference in my mental health was like night and day. But then my medication caused me to become intolerant to all fruit and most veg and I had to stop doing it and my mental health plummeted again.
Ah, just another reason I ought to do that. Thank you.
You're welcome.