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MENTAL HEALTH
Right foods improve mental health
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STACEY COOK HAWK
SalusCare Inc.
lunch or dinner is an
hour or so away.
Ten walnuts (recommended serving) will
eliminate that pang and
will thwart you from
dabbling in that naughty
cookie jar.
Selenium is claimed to
lift the mood and reduce
feelings of “depression”
in some. Foods rich in
selenium are beans and
legumes, lean meat (lean
pork or beef, skinless
chicken or turkey), lowfat dairy foods, nuts (yep,
these guys again) and
seeds (especially Brazil
nuts), and seafood (oysters, clams, crab, sar-
dines and fish). The good
news is you only need 70
micrograms of selenium
and it’s fairly easy to get
with a reasonable portion
of any one of these tasty
morsels. You can carry a
few of these guys in your
pocket or handbag for
easy access.
Another fantastic
mood booster is probably
sitting in your cabinet
right now, and most likely you’re mother’s as
well. Oats. Just a half cup
will fill you up and will
help to stabilize blood
sugar so it won’t plummet and take you down 15
minutes after you eat it.
And it contains selenium.
Win-win.
Feeling a bit anxious?
This treat may be just
what you need — dark
style chocolate. One of
the sources of anxiety is
low serotonin levels.
Serotonin affects mood,
and a depressed mood
can lead to feelings of
anxiety. What’s the rationale behind all of this?
Dark chocolate has sizable amounts of tryptophan. Tryptophan
works as a precursor to
serotonin. It’s possible
that by ingesting more
dark chocolate, you’re
improving your serotonin
levels. Chocolate also has
high levels of fat and
sugar, so moderation is
key here.
Any of the above foods
paired with daily exercise (30 minutes will do
just fine), a healthy, clean
diet, meditation, time
with family and friends,
plenty of water and seven to eight hours of sleep
will further enhance
your overall well-being,
ability to manage stress
and fight off illness, and
it will make you much
nicer to be around.
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merican health
food pioneer Victor
Lindlahr was a
strong believer in the
idea that food controls
health. He developed the
Catabolic Diet and said
back in the late ’20s and
’30s that 90 percent of
the diseases known to
man are caused by cheap
foodstuffs. And he coined
the idiom, “You are what
you eat.”
This was considerably
before the birth of the
McDonald’s golden arches, Burger King, Taco
Bell, Arby’s and even
before the dawn of the
infamous Big Boy franchise. Lindlahr was obviously ahead of his time
and, according to hundreds of thousands of
pages of research, absolutely correct. He initiated one of the earliest
documented health
movements and we continue in his footsteps.
We certainly are what
we eat, and what we eat
directly affects how we
feel. Research clearly
demonstrates that foods
affect our brain chemistry and energy levels.
Some foods have a higher
octane level than others
and burn cleaner, which
determines our output
and how we run.
Think about the last
time you had a burger,
fries, shake (biggie version, of course). Remember that feeling shortly
after consuming 1,700
calories of mostly fat and
carbohydrates? Not so
good.
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dating back to 8,000
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