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Alcohol, obesity and depression abuse seem to go together in many women, revealed the first study of how these three disorders are interrelated over time in young adults.

Men and young women participants had followed since 1985, when they were in fifth grade. The team analyzed the results of interviews conducted when participants were 24, 27 and 30 years to understand the interrelationships between depression, obesity and alcohol abuse.

At age 21, 8 per cent of women and 12 per cent of men had at least two of these three problems. At the time, having more than one of those problems was more common in women but less common in men.

The only relationship observed in the obese men was for 27 years, they were less likely to be depressed at 30. But the 27 depressed women were three times more likely at 30 years to meet the clinical criteria that define alcohol abuse.

Women with alcohol problems at 24 were four times more likely to be obese at age 27, while being obese to 27 doubled the risk of having depression at age 30.

Meanwhile, people of both sexes on low incomes had an increased risk of depression and obesity.

The tendency to have a style for which the person becomes obsessed with playing and negative experiences would be one of the problems attached to alcohol abuse, obesity and depression.

Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksma, a psychologist at Yale, called the “toxic triangle” of “eat, drink and think too much,” they add. She showed that women-and men-with this style are more depressed and more likely to binge drink or food to cope with emotional problems.

There are interventions for the three legs of the toxic triangle, such as exercise, mental training and stress management.

Strategies to treat depression, excessive alcohol consumption and obesity are problems with the “reward system” brain should help people to find alternatives autorrecompensa to food and alcohol.

Obesity is a chronic disease recently described by the World Health Organization as an epidemic of this century.

The increased availability of food, more energy and nutrient content of the body can burn or absorb and sedentary lifestyle are the main causes that have led to increased disease.

Other factors that help this condition are the heritage, the presence of certain disorders or ingestion of certain drugs. There are also some afectana diseases of the thyroid gland or adrenal glands.

Obesity is a disease risk, which can lead to the subject suffering eating disorders such as bulimia medicamentosy taking substances that are harmful to health, as are some anorectics, amphetamines, cocaine and ephedrine .

The main factors that influence obesity are:

* Eating too: In the majority of people who are overweight, this is because they eat too much, either in quantity or variety of food, so they can not spend all the calories they consume the which leads to overweight.

* Lack of exercise: Lack of physical activity and sedentary leisure too, and customs as a general guideline, are those that produce patterns that do not consider exercise. One factor causing this is that the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.