Eating well to help manage anxiety: Your questions answered
Does diet affect anxiety? If so, what should I eat, and which foods should I try to avoid?
People who suffer with anxiety should remember a few simple rules:
Low blood sugar, poor hydration, use of alcohol, caffeine, and smoking can also precipitate or mimic symptoms of anxiety.
Eating regular meals and preventing hypoglycemic states are therefore important.
Adequately hydrating with plain water is best, at least 6 to 8 glasses a day.
While nicotine does not cause anxiety, withdrawal from nicotine can mimic anxiety, and people with anxiety may smoke to soothe themselves. It may become a problematic behavior, as nicotine c...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Uma Naidoo, MD Tags: Anxiety and Depression Health Healthy Eating Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Processed Snacks and Desserts: What the Hell, Let's Have Some!
viaflickrBy Crabby McSlackerAre you one of those people who eats only healthy whole foods, having absolutely no desire to consume tasty and convenient items created in some huge factory somewhere, packaged up and shipped thousands of miles away to your very own neighborhood grocery store?Well, congratulations!Enjoy that little cute little plate of fresh cut veggies and hummus. Savor that teeny-tiny handful of raw nuts. Arrange those fresh apple slices into a Pinterest-ready photo broadcasting your virtue.Me? Sometimes I buy processed stuff in boxes and bags and cartons and resealable pouches.My meals are generally pr...
Source: Cranky Fitness - October 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Who needs rice when you have cauliflower?
Cauliflower is a versatile vegetable: raw, cooked, mashed, roasted, or riced. Using riced cauliflower allows you to recreate many rice dishes easily while maintaining a grain-free, low-carb eating style.
Use riced cauliflower as a substitute for all forms of rice without sacrificing taste or texture. While you can rice the cauliflower yourself in a food chopper or food processor, food retailers such as Trader Joe’s are now selling pre-riced bags for convenience. Our replacement for mashed potatoes is mashed cauliflower, a delicious substitute that tastes every bit as good without the excessive carbohydrate load...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 16, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Cauliflower Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat-Free Lifestyle Dr. Davis gluten-free grain-free grains rice Thyroid Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Food Fight
Given the void in dietary wisdom due to the ineffectiveness and blunders of “official” dietary advice, there is no shortage of books or diet programs trying to fill that void, many wildly at odds with each other—paleo, Atkins, vegan, vegetarian, high-carb, low-carb, ketogenic, etc.
The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the USDA’s MyPlate and food pyramid, and organizations such as the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association, as well as many of the diet programs in the popular press, I believe, fail to acknowledge several fundamental principles that really need to be address...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 7, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle atkins carbs Fat gluten gluten-free grains low-carb low-fat paleo protein undoctored vegan vegetarian Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
A doctor ’s recipe for a healthy breakfast
When I look at the typical breakfast food offerings at many restaurants, supermarkets, and food trucks, and I think about the health of our nation, I want to cry. Muffins, bagels, donuts, pancakes, waffles, French toast sticks… Want some bacon, sausage, or fried potatoes with that, ma’am?
Then there’s what marketing tells you is a “well-balanced breakfast”: the image of a big bowl of cereal and a few decorative strawberries on top, with a tall glass of orange juice. You get the idea that you need the calcium in that milk, that vitamin C in that orange juice, and the carbs in that cereal for energy. But do you?
Ea...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Health Healthy Eating nutrition Source Type: blogs
Should We Fear an Amazon Monopoly on Healthy Food?
By JASON CHUNG
Two months ago, I wrote about the potential impact of the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods on grocery prices. Both here and in the Boston Globe, I hoped and predicted that Amazon would use its famed distribution network to drive down prices on the healthy and organic foodstuffs that made Whole Foods famous.
I’m happy to say that I was right. Today, on Day 1 of Amazon’s official ownership of Whole Foods, Americans got to see the first tangible impacts of Amazon ownership and, as predicted, it was lower prices. As noted by journalists, the chain once derided as Whole Paycheck should now be ref...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Amazon Jason Chung Whole Foods Source Type: blogs
Starting in on the Identification of Mechanisms by which Gut Bacteria Influence Aging
It is now fairly well established that gut bacteria have a degree of influence on the pace of aging, though just how much of individual variation can be explained in this way is still a question mark. The next step in the process of investigation is to identify the most significant mechanisms involved. This will no doubt proceed in much the same way as investigations of the mechanisms of calorie restriction and exercise, with researchers seeking ways to mimic the presence of favorable gut bacteria populations via pharmaceuticals. Just like those other parts of the field, this probably isn't going to result in therapies tha...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 23, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Your brain on chocolate
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Did you know that places where chocolate consumption is highest have the most Nobel Prize recipients? It’s true, at least according to a 2012 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Of course, that could be a coincidence. But is it possible that intelligence or other measures of high brain function are actually improved by the consumption of chocolate? A new review summarizes the evidence and concludes with a resounding “maybe.”
Keeping your brain healthy
When it comes to preserving and improving brain function, let’s face it: we need all the help we can get. With ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Healthy Eating Memory Source Type: blogs
Blueberry, Carrot, and Greens Prebiotic Shake
Another delicious recipe from my new Undoctored book.
If you are into getting more greens and other nutritious foods through a shake or smoothie, here is one way to combine them with prebiotic fibers. The spinach is interchangeable with your choice of greens, such as kale or collard greens— great sources of vitamin K1.
Makes 1
1 peeled green banana or peeled raw white potato, coarsely chopped
1 cucumber, coarsely sliced
1 cup fresh spinach
1 carrot, coarsely sliced
1⁄2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
cup water
Sweetener equivalent to 1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon inulin or FOS powder (optional)
In a blender, combin...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Undoctored Vitamin K Wheat Belly Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing.
Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs
How To Diet: DON ’T
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HOW TO DIET: DON’T
Have you been searching for the perfect diet? Reading all those diet plans people are trying to sell to you, and struggling to pick or choose which one would help
you the most? Well let me tell you the secret to successful dieting…DON’T.
How to Not Diet
At least, not in the traditional way. You see, people that make diet plans, food replacement pills, or magic weight loss programs are, surprise, just tryi...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ExerciseForReal Tags: diet featured health and fitness self improvement how to diet how to lose weight nutrition pickthebrain stop dieting Source Type: blogs
Eating the Same Foods Repeatedly Is Stupid
Do you have a tendency to eat the same foods over and over?
Are you aware that it’s much better for your overall health, mental functioning, and immunity to take in a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts, and seeds? Eating the same limited foods repeatedly increases the chance that you’ll miss out on certain micronutrients, including many that haven’t been identified or studied yet. A nutritionally restricted diet also increases your susceptibility to disease.
Our forager ancestors moved around a lot and ate nutritionally different wild foods wherever they went. With the rise of agriculture, h...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Find your exercise style
My husband Jay and I turn into super nerds on our brisk morning walk. We sport decidedly uncool but comfy clothes and sneakers, clock the times when we leave and return, count our steps, sometimes break into a run for interval training, and alternate routes in the neighborhood — all while flailing our arms (okay, that’s just me), gabbing away (me again), laughing, and analyzing the issues of the day. It’s fun — like a mini date — and it’s always interesting. The routine suits us. And that comfortable fit is key to sustaining an exercise program. “Finding an activity you enjoy is an incentive to keep doing it,...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Source Type: blogs
7 Simple Smoothies to Boost Your Mood
I have mentioned in some of my posts that drinking a green smoothie is one of my more effective sanity tools. For fear of sounding like an infomercial, I must say that I realize there is no simple cure for depression. But I do think chugging down two or three of these leafy-green concoctions a day has significantly impacted my health and begun the healing process for some of my conditions.
The Benefits of Green Smoothies
Why green smoothies?
“Greens are the primary found group that matches human nutritional needs most completely,” explains Victoria Boutenko in her book Green for Life. They are nutrition powerhouses, pa...
Source: World of Psychology - January 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Diet Digestion green smoothie juicing Source Type: blogs
Autumn Anxiety is Real and Treatable
It happens every year. As I watch the first golden leaves fall from the oak tree outside our house and listen to the sound of the cicadas ushering in autumn, my anxiety spikes. I used to think I was relapsing into depression, but having been through this year after year (and documenting it in my mood journal), I now know I’m just going through my annual bout of autumn anxiety: a nervous feeling in my gut that begins the last week of August and continues through the first weeks of September.
I’m hardly alone. Many of my friends who battle anxiety — and even those that don’t have a mood disorder — say ...
Source: World of Psychology - October 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Depression Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Stress Allergies autumn anxiety Breathing Technique cytokines Exhaustion fall fever Source Type: blogs
