1. Meat and mental health: A meta-analysis of meat consumption, depression, and anxiety
- Author
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Sydney Altmeyer, Gabrielle C. Wy, Jackson Peak, Urska Dobersek, Kelsey Teel, and Joshua Adkins
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Consumption (economics) ,business.industry ,Meta-analysis ,Medicine ,Anxiety ,General Medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Mental health ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Food Science ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
In this meta-analysis, we examined the quantitative relation between meat consumption or avoidance, depression, and anxiety. In June 2020, we searched five online databases for primary studies examining differences in depression and anxiety between meat abstainers and meat consumers that offered a clear (dichotomous) distinction between these groups. Twenty studies met the selection criteria representing 171,802 participants with 157,778 meat consumers and 13,259 meat abstainers. We calculated the magnitude of the effect between meat consumers and meat abstainers with bias correction (Hedges's
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- 2021