3 easy recipes with ingredients you already have at home.
It’s all too easy to reach for comfort foods when feeling stressed or anxious.
Consuming that extra scoop of ice cream or another handful of chips or cookies, however, can cause feelings of guilt — and even more stress — along with fatigue and irritability from sugar highs and lows.
Yet the opposite is also true: Consuming healthy mood-boosting foods can deliver important brain nutrients while positively impacting your well-being.
Below are some nutritious and delicious foods that can improve your frame of mind while helping you avoid the #quarantine15 and other related health issues.
Healthy, mood-boosting comfort foods
We know that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish — particularly docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) — play an important role in brain development. But these fats may also play a role in our mental health, too. In one meta-analysis involving 26 studies and over 150,000 participants, researchers found that consuming high amounts of fatty fish may help protect us from depression.
Another study examining the mechanisms by which omega-3s work concluded that while many factors may contribute to a rise in depression, “dietary recommendations suggesting proper intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids … can result in substantial benefits for the general population…”
To read the entire article from CNN, click https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/health/foods-boost-mood-diet-drayer-wellness/index.html