Nitrated meat products are associated with suicide behavior in psychiatric patients

everhopeful · April 6, 2019, 10:08am

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Nitrated meat products are associated with suicide behavior in psychiatric patients.

F Dickerson, C Stallings, A Origoni, E Katsafanas, K Sweeney, S Khushalani and R Yolken, Psychiatry research, Mar 29 2019

There has been little previous study of the association between dietary factors and suicide. The association between food exposures and suicide attempt history was investigated in a sample of 270 individuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder. Individuals who had a suicide attempt history were almost 3 times as likely to report eating cured meat, typically prepared with added nitrates, compared to patients without a suicide attempt history, adjusting for demographic and clinical variables. A suicide attempt history was 6 times greater in those who in addition were cigarette smokers and had a history of substance abuse compared to those who did not have any of these risk factors. If dietary factors were shown to affect suicide risk, an additional method of risk reduction would be available which could be widely disseminated to address this major public health problem.

Andrey · April 6, 2019, 10:31am

I do eat processed meat and I do smoke, and have passively contemplated the idea of ending my life, but never in a serious manner.
Anyway correlation =/= causation, so it doesn’t mean that if people at risk stop eating meat or smoking, they will automatically get rid of suicidal ideation.

anon90843118 · April 6, 2019, 11:31am

Process meat makes me SICK
I agree

anon68444330 · April 6, 2019, 1:54pm

İ think nitrates last thing to consider at meats. Real danger is antibiotics in meat products.All meat products contain serious amount of antibiotics and this make resistant to your body aganist antibiotic treatment. And this is really dangerous. Actually this epidemic already started. Lot of patients and doctors complaint about untreatable infections since 2010’s.before then antibiotic injections was really rare treatment method on infections. Now is very common and all this cases related to meats with antibiotics

shutterbug · April 6, 2019, 2:03pm

Urban legend. My wife’s parents raise cattle. You can’t take the cattle to market for a certain time after you give them antibiotics. Meat is also regularly tested to make sure it doesn’t contain them. Truth is, our meat supply is extremely safe.

firemonkey · April 6, 2019, 2:13pm

I was more suicidal when still living with my parents. I ate less nitrated meat then.

shutterbug · April 6, 2019, 2:14pm

Processed meat products are disgusting for the most part.