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Must-Eat Foods that Improve your Mood

  By Trina Remedios  posted Mar 16th 2012 at 8:00AM IN | Avg Rating
Diet & Fitness

Pulses, legumes, and cereal – Beans, chickpeas, even brown rice, lentils, soya beans, green peas can improve your mood and power up your energy. The trick they bring with them is that they help to slow down the absorption of carbohydrates, and in the bargain they help cut off unnecessary food craving caused by spiking blood sugar levels. 

What you can try: Every mother has her own recipe for preparing pulses and cereal, so it's best not to mess with tradition; unless of course that tradition comes with dollops of oil and sugar!

  • Chocolate – Well it’s not just an aphrodisiacs, these dark fantasy can spoon you out of depression and reduce stress. Rich in antioxidants, you can wave anxiety good bye.   Their secret is theobromine and phenylethyamine, mood boosting compound presen
  • Seafood – Omega 3 is surely miracle oil freely available in fish, a healthy recipe to wards off cancer and cardio vascular diseases, improves your immune system and reduces joint pain.   Emotionally, it helps to improve your mind and helps to combat oth
  • Fruit – Each fruit has a vital role to play and strums your mood. The key ingredient to look for is vitamin B and folate, they stimulate amino acids which produces serotonin that pumps up your gloomy mood. This is your cure to inflammation also these go
  • Nuts – one thing all nuts have in common is their ability to enhance your energy in a short period of time. But if you look closer walnut and flaxseeds are a good source of Omega 3. Couple of nuts and you’re on a roll, but you are also stronger in con
  • Pulses – Beans, chickpeas, even brown rice, lentils, soya beans, green peas can improve your mood and power up your energy. So the trick to legumes is that they help to slow down the absorption of carbohydrates, in the bargain helps to cut off craving f
  • Low fat dairy – If you can get your hand on Greek yogurt then your sure to be happy for the day, it is a rich source of dopamine and norepinephrine present in proteins which is higher that regular curds. Low fat dairy also contains vitamins D and B as w

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