Far more common than you may think, one in five women and one in ten men can expect to experience some form of depression in their lives. Depression can influence every aspect of your life. Although cause of depression is unknown, depression can leave one feeling sad, irritable, indecisive, pessimistic, hopeless or empty. Sufferers can also experience insomnia, fatigue, memory loss, restlessness, anxiety and even rapid weight gain or loss.

Today, many people are aware of drug therapy that is available for depression. This includes pharmaceuticals such as Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, and Prozac. These drugs, while helping to eliminate depression, can cause emotional “flatness”. Instead of coming to terms with underlying causes of their depression these medications suppress them.

There are a number of natural therapies, which can help you manage mild to moderate depression. If you are currently on anti-depressive drug therapy, it is important to work with your primary care provider before incorporating these recommendations into your life.

It’s good that Mr. Jennings pointed out link between corn-fed animals and misuse of antibiotics because many people don’t understand this. Basically, he stated that farm animals must be fed antibiotics because a corn-based diet is not what their bodies are designed for. And if you think about what cows eat when left out to graze, he’s right. They eat greens, not corn. Other agricultural “cost-saving” practices also contribute to illness in animals. Although not mentioned on show, overcrowding and confinement are major problems on large farms. When humans consume meat from animals whose food was laced with antibiotics, humans often develop immunity to those drugs. This means that when people get sick, drugs prescribed by doctor might not work. So duration and severity of your illness could be much worse as your doctor searches for a medication that will kill disease. Obviously, depending on severity of your condition, this could even result in death.

Peter Jennings went on to point out that feeding animals what they were meant to eat raises cost of meat. He sees this as a positive thing, because maybe then people will eat less meat and more produce (and presumably lose weight). However, we must be careful about how produce is raised as well. A recent article in a national magazine discussed a study comparing nutrient content of vegetables and fruits raised with pesticides using traditional “mass production” farming techniques to organically produced counterparts. The mass produced foods were found to contain significantly less vitamins and minerals than organically raised produce. But organic produce is more expensive. So if we raise our fruits and veggies organically, and cost goes up, will people really eat more produce and less meat?