Improve Your Mood Foods

Food & Nutrition

Who wants to waste a weekend feeling down? Choose the right nutrients to give yourself a lift.

1 Whole Grains
Low-quality carbs can lead to feeling irritable and depressed. So choose whole grain breads, cereals and pastas combined with lean proteins to stay on an even keel.

2 Omega-3 Fatty acids
While the relationship between depression and these fats is not completely understood, they may help level mood. Find them in salmon, walnuts, edamame.

3 Vitamin D
Since it helps increase serotonin levels, vitamin D may combat winter blues. good sources: milk and fortified yogurt. Discuss how much you need each day with your doctor.

Source: Joy Bauer, MS, RD, author of Joy Bauer’s Food Cures

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Nutrition and diet is a big part of trying to make you feel better as very often the foods we think make us feel happier end up sapping our energy. This is a great guide.

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by rosscurrie on May 15, 2012

The best weekends should be spent on a beach resort, soaking up the sun and drinking from a coconut. However, we know that would not happen to most of us, and all we can do is spend or weekends mulling at home. That doesn't have to be, and I'm sure these mood foods will help to boost our moods. I can't wait to cook that for my partner. She looks like she needs some serious mood enhancing foods.

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