Across 59 studies and more than two million lives, a new meta-analysis quietly insists that what we pour into our bodies shapes, in measurable ways, the emotional weather inside them. Sugar-sweetened beverages, energy drinks, and carbonated soft drinks all correlate with elevated risk of depression and anxiety, while coffee emerges as an unlikely ally against low mood — its anti-inflammatory compounds perhaps steadying the neurological ground beneath us. The associations are strongest among adolescents, whose still-forming brains may be especially permeable to the consequences of daily consump