A busy and stressful day can easily take your beautiful smile away. Do remember that happiness is a choice and you can create it. Apart from enjoying your hobbies, you should go out to get some sun, talk to your favourite person, and eat a well-balanced diet. You should also learn to meditate and de-stress yourself. Chronic stress could lead to serious health conditions including depression. It is important to start taking care of yourself before it is too late. You can begin with something simple and start small for example snacking on nuts or have a bowl of banana split during break time. Here are top 10 foods that help to improve your mood and combat depression.
[divider title=”1. Chocolate” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Chocolate is everyone’s favourite. It is not only tasty, but helps to improve your mood and make you happy. A cup of hot chocolate, a bar of dark chocolate, or chocolate coated ice cream helps to boost your mood because it stimulates the secretion ofserotonin that helps to support your immune system, promote brain functions and improve mood.
Check out the link below for chocolate coated ice cream recipe
[divider title=”2. Banana” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Banana helps to promote brain functions and may increase levels of serotonin and endorphin that help to promote good mood and make you happy. You can eat banana for breakfast, put them on your peanut butter toast, or have it as your dessert (Banana spilt).
Check out the banana split recipe here:
[divider title=”3. Nuts” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Snacking on nuts such as almonds, walnuts, pistachio, or peanuts helps to combat depression and promote good mood due to a high amount of good fats (monounsaturated fats). Nuts also contain folate that may increase serotonin levels in brain. So, grab a bowl of nuts and snack it while working on your project. Enjoy!
[divider title=”4. Fresh fruit” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Fresh fruit helps to freshen you up after such a long busy day. Fruits contain vitamins (A, B, C) and essential minerals that help to improve mood, yet are good for your skin and overall health.
[divider title=”5. Water” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Water can help to boost your mood and promote good health. Water helps to flush out toxin from your body, energise your body, and promote blood flow as well as blood circulation. In addition, dehydration increases confusion, bad moods, tiredness, and headache. Do remember that hydration is a key fro a healthy living! Drink up your water!
[divider title=”6. Green vegetables” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals including folic acid (folate) that helps to boost your mood and make you happy. Trace minerals in green vegetables help to increase energy and reduce tiredness.
[divider title=”7. Milk” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Milk contains protein and calcium that are good for your overall health, promote strong teeth and bones, increase the serotonin levels, which make you happy and improve your mood. If you cannot drink milk, try other alternatives such as almond milk or rice milk.
[divider title=”8. Salmon” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Salmon is rich in omega-3 and good fats (monounsaturated fats), which helps to improve your brain functions and boost your mood due to the increase in secretion of serotonin levels.
[divider title=”9. Chilli” style=”style6″ align=”left”/]
Capsaicin in chilli acts as a powerful antioxidant that helps to fight against disease including cancer and may improve your brain function. Adequate amount consumption of chill also helps to improve your mood and reduce your risk of breast cancer and other cancers. Capsaicin may also stimulate the secretion of endorphin hormone (happy hormone), which makes you feel happy, improve mood, feel pleasure, and reduce pain. So, try to add some chilli to your meals.
[divider title=”10. Garlic” style=”style1″ align=”left”/]
It is loaded with organosulfur that helps to boost mood, may improve brain functions, and yet protect you from cancer and slow the growth of cancer cells. Add some garlic to your mixed green vegetables, grilled chicken dishes, or your toast. Yummy!
Do remember that depression is more than just a chronic stress, but also malnutrition, lack of exposure to sunlight, having negative thoughts, and keep yourself buried in the past. Let it go! Besides that, stick with a well-balanced diet can easily help you to combat depression, make you happy, feel pleasure, and put a smile on your face. We deserve to be happy. Stay positive! Be kind to one another.
Have a great day my friend!
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