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Food and Mood
Ever wonder why sometime we crave for chocolate or sugary stuff when we are sad,stressed or when we feel pessimistic? Studies shown that our mood does affect our food choice and vice versa. What we eat has a profound effect on how we feel now and later! Check out this article by British dietetic association that comments regarding "food and mood" Any opinion or experience regarding food choices and Mood?
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According to studies - Foods and beverages affect mood and behavior, even in the short term. Research studies that investigate the best overall dietary patterns for good mental health invariably arrive at a conclusion: the foods and beverages that support optimal physical health are the same ones that support optimal mental health.
Ref - https://www.dmu.edu/dose/2016/04/the-food-mood-connection/
Dark chocolate made with a high percentage of unsweetened chocolate (+70%) contains sufficient theobromine to relax your big, broad muscles which also constrain your blood vessels. It also boosts your serotonin (the feel good hormone). If you blood pressure drops and you feel relaxed and your mood is elevated, the residual sugar in the chocolate will also give you a bit of an energy spike to incrementally enhance your overall feeling a well being.
According to the Harvard University "The research regarding dietary factors and depression is still inconclusive," says Patricia Chocano-Bedoya, a visiting scientist in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. But there have been hints that food may play a role in depression!!! further studies are needed!
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/food-and-mood-is-there-a-connection
Many patients of mine reach for sugary or simple carbs under stressful conditions or to satiate their soul. Rare that one would reach for beans or steak for filling up one's emotional void. I have also seen patients who tell me they look for textural foods to eat, perhaps crunchy items, to appease mood issues. Best course of action is to go for a walk!!
At home, we all live by the same great guidelines: healthy variety in reasonable quantity.
Treat day is Sunday afternoon + 1 other day: an ice cream cone, cookie, a piece of cake.
Always 3 good meals plus healthy snacks (apples, cheese stick, peanut butter +)
It has been viewed through research and evaluated that there is potential health benefits of consuming chocolate, where as no complete view to confirm about effect on medical for health matter and chocolate is high in coco butter and fat removed during chocolate refining and also added proportions during manufacturing adding other fats, sugar and powdered milk as well which has different effects on health for eating Chocolate and consumption of large quantities of energy-rich food, such as chocolate has also effect.
63 months ago
Chocolate is comfort food in times of stress and a mood-enhancer and romance-inducer in more positive ways in which good chocolate, dark chocolate, with a cocoa percentage is good for us and experts have found that chocolate is good and suggested that it may be beneficial for heath.
63 months ago