Foods for your Moods

Foods for your Moods

Recent research confirms the link between what we eat and how we feel, which is more commonly known as comfort eating.

How to help our mood eating?

Look after your gut! Did you know the gut uses similar chemicals to the brain and is closely linked via the gut-brain axis? Support your gut by eating fibrerich foods, live yogurts, kefir, kombucha and other fermented foods.

Eat often and enough. Eating regularly ensures the body has a constant source of energy and this may help in stabilising your mood.

Avoid refined carbs. Simple sugars in junk food, soft drinks, white bread and white rice can cause blood sugar levels to spike, leaving you feeling tired, cranky and even angry.

Eat more tryptophan rich foods. Tryptophan turns into serotonin, the happy hormone and regulates sleep. Eat the following foods: chocolate, oats, dried dates, eggs, poultry, chickpeas, almonds, spirulina, fish and yogurt.

Drink green tea! Green tea is rich in an amino acid called L-theanine which helps reduce anxiety, aids relaxation and can also reduce gut inflammation.

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