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Nutrition

11 min read

21 Apr 2026

How does punctual nutrition help cope with depression?

Author: Aparna Parmar (Nutritional Psychiatry Expert, Nutritionist)

Normal life is not always a joy ride, mostly it is filled with ups and downs. Positive emotions like gratitude, love, care and self-satisfaction bring happiness. Negative emotions such as guilt, jealousy, loss, self-doubt, inferiority and superiority complex make life toxic and destructive. An adequate balance of all sentiments is desirable to lead a conventional healthy life. Emotional turmoil erupts when pessimistic feelings overpower optimistic ones. Due to known or unknown reasons, a few people start to entangle themselves in their harmful thoughts. Slowly without realization, they enter into a mental disorder condition which is popularly known as depression. Mostly this is a tabooed, ignored, low reported and less diagnosed health condition. The majority of the patients are unaware of the symptoms, remain untreated throughout their life and suffer silently. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India is one of the most depressed countries in the world with a whopping 36% of Indians likely to suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Depression ranks 4th among the most common causes of disease burden worldwide (WHO) and is expected to rank 1st in

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Normal life is not always a joy ride, mostly it is filled with ups and downs. Positive emotions like gratitude, love, care and self-satisfaction bring happiness. Negative emotions such as guilt, jealousy, loss, self-doubt, inferiority and superiority complex make life toxic and destructive. An a…

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Asha Ji

Certified yoga therapist and functional nutritionist with 8+ years in holistic women's health. Founder of AllisWell, Powai.

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