How to Feel Better By Eating Foods That Boost Your Mood

Food is used often to bring you up or bring you down it’s a double-edged sword that can prove to heal you or harm you. If you are feeling irritable or slightly down it might be from the foods that you are consuming on a regular basis. Though your really can’t control what you eat all the time you can control the frequency of what you incorporate in your diet on a day to day basis to enhance your mood.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. FOLIC ACID AND B12
   
   Foods such as chili made with lima beans, broccoli, salmon and lean beef contain a generous amount of folic acid and B12. Folic acid and B12 have been known to prevent nervous system disorders such as mood swings and dementia. Folic Acid is usually found in legumes (aka beans) and green leafy foods, where as B12 is usually rich in meats fish and poultry.

2. EAT ANTIOXIDANT RICH FOODS
   
   When you get stressed out or you’re moody, your brain oxidizes or dies a little bit because of the stress put on the brain. Oxidation is the process by which all things deteriorate. We know it as aging or rotting, without Anti Oxidants anything biological would turn to dust. Eating foods rich in Anti Oxidants slows down the aging process and facilitates immune strength brain and central nervous function. So how does this help your mood?
   
   The answer lies in the ability to think clearly; nearly all mood swings are brought about from a brain that does not have healthy chemistry, healthy brain chemistry comes from a brain that is growing and not deteriorating. Anti Oxidants slows down the deterioration not only of the brain but all areas of the body. This creates an environment where the brain can grow and a growing brain at any age reduces stress by being more efficient. Stress is the generally the culprit of everyone's moddyness.

3. CHOCOLATE
   
   This food is a no brainer 1oz of dark chocolate has a huge affect on the amount of endorphins that your body produces. Endorphins are the molecules that make you feel good. Just don’t over do a good thing.

4. STOP EATING SO MUCH FRIED FOOD
   
   Anything fried tends to be high in Saturated Fat. Saturated Fat makes things taste good however they induce havoc on the body’s ability recover from damage or stress. Researchers have suspected for years that there was a link between Saturated Fat and depression because saturated fats lower the production of serotonin. Serotonin is the molecule in the body that works as a natural anti-depressant in human beings. Individuals suffering from depression generally have lower levels of Serotonin which amplifies their levels of depression.