Foods and moods demystified

It has to be said sometimes that we often very rarely think about the connection between foods and our moods it doesn't really matter, whether you're feeling happy depressed, anxious, you may tend to think that you are just this way and think nothing else of it.

But what if all along you could have been eating the wrong foods which were in actual fact making you feel the way you are feeling or not as the case maybe.

The problem is these days that food is available in such abundance and packaged in so many different ways, we may or may not even realise what we are actually eating, such is the power of marketing these days everyone likes to tell you what you are eating is healthy, when nothing could be further from the truth let's take for instance ready meals the ones you can either cook in the oven or the microwave, these are a great time savers for busy people but the packaging tends to sell the product and sometimes the consumer may be misled as to what they are actually buying, it may say on it low-fat for instance but may have large quantities of salt and sugar to compensate for this so in actual fact you're not buying anything that is healthy at all far from it.

A study was done recently on television whereby two families swapped eating habits for a month, to see how it would affect them one family ate freshly prepared food while the other family ate supermarket ready meals, after the trial was over they were asked how they felt and also various medical tests were done to see how their health had changed during the trial period, the family that ate the ready meals whose health was checked before and after the experiment their health improved due to switching to fresh food, while the other family who switched to eating ready meals now had the problems of high blood pressure, raised levels of cholesterol slight liver damage due to the amount of fat in the diet, said they had no energy didn't feel like doing much at all, one of their sons wasn't able to do as much running as he could before and didn't feel too good at all.

So there is a direct link between how you're feeling and what you're eating hence the saying you are what you eat. Eating foods that contain refined sugar in them as well as, carbohydrates will tend to make you feel quite relaxed.

Here is a list of foods that will make you feel more up beat if you're feeling down Chicken, veal, low-fat cottage cheese, low-fat yoghurts, and beans, if however you're feeling quite a bit stressed eat some of the following ice cream, cake, bread, rice and potatoes. Its it's not a good idea to get into the habit of eating ice cream cake etc when you're trying to lose weight, but by reading this you will get a insight how certain foods can and do make you feel which in itself can lead to comfort eating at times which is something we want to avoid really if we are trying to lose weight.