Diet and Emotions.

Are you upset with yourself for not being able to move your temper? Do you feel helpless to do anything about it? In fact, if you want to shift your moods, all you have to do is change your diet, as many foods have an effect on mood. If you're feeling tense, sullen or miserable, the panacea for these problems may be in your fridge. Of course, we're not suggesting that you consume chocolate cream cake or ice-cold beer! When life isn't going as well as you'd like it to, it may seem appealing to keep consuming sugars, however, once they're depleted, you'll feel even worse. But some foods are indeed rich in specific nutrients that your brain needs, and they can keep you thinking fast and emotionally stable. These foods may not immediately put you in tip-top shape, but they help improve your mood. When you can't get rid of depression and frustration, here are some of the best foods recommended to you that can ease this low mood.

■Feeling depressed --- Food of choice: Spinach

We can't guarantee that a bowl of your favorite food will make your piles of paperwork go away, but nutritionist Patrick Holford says: "Spinach is rich in magnesium, a mineral that relaxes the mind and body. Spinach is a major source of magnesium, along with some dark green, leafy vegetables, such as kale." Spinach is also rich in another blood pressure-lowering nutrient: vitamin C.

To serve: prepare a large handful of fresh or frozen spinach by sautéing a serving of vegetables over high heat. Sprinkle the spinach on top of the vegetables at the last minute and remove from the pan so the vitamin C nutrients aren't destroyed by the heat.

■Slow reaction time and lethargy --- Food of choice: Eggs

If your brain is slow to react and you can't concentrate, then eat a few eggs. Eggs are rich in choline, a type of vitamin B complex, which helps improve memory and concentration. Eggs also contain proteins that are essential for normal body activity, making it easy to get through the day.

How to eat: roll scrambled eggs in slices of bread, make sure the bread is whole wheat bread, because whole wheat bread is rich in vitamin B that makes the brain agile.

■Unusual anger - the preferred food: melon seeds

If you get stuck in a traffic jam, you may have to be late, then you must not be angry, take out a packet of melon seeds, slowly stoned for a while. Melon seeds are rich in vitamin B and magnesium, which can eliminate the fire, but also make your blood sugar stable and help you feel calm.

How to eat: If you want to relax, sprinkle a handful of melon seeds and some diced pears on top of your yogurt before drinking it.

■Aggrieved and depressed --- preferred food: bananas

Have you ever had the experience of being depressed because your hairstyle was not done well enough, so you would be depressed because you spent a lot of money for nothing? The frustration of self-esteem and demoralization can be related to low levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine, an organic substance derived from tryptophan. Bananas contain high levels of tryptophan, so chewing on a banana can help improve your mood.

Mood stabilizing food - the taste of mother

When encountering setbacks at work or in life, the attitude can be divided into two types: overcoming and giving up. For the obstacles in front of you, those who can break through and go forward are courageous, and the support for this courage is "mother's flavor".

The definition of "mom's flavor" is easily misunderstood. By "mom's flavor," I mean the "unique flavor of the dishes" she makes, not traditional foods like oyster noodle soup or braised beef noodles. In other words, it refers to those who have a deep impression of the flavor of their family's dishes from childhood to adolescence, especially those that are filled with a sense of happiness. Many of your mother's dishes have this flavor. Processed foods, no matter how expensive, can hardly replace this nostalgic flavor.

This type of food or dish with a strong nostalgic flavor can be called "mood-stabilizing food". The reason is that when you eat this kind of food, your mood will be stabilized. Especially when encountering setbacks, if you eat this kind of stabilizing food, you can give courage to overcome difficulties and defeat setbacks. It can be said that people who can eat emotionally stabilizing food are the lucky ones on the journey of life.

Most adults nowadays used to have this kind of stabilizing food, but after the progress of civilization and the standardization of meals, the taste of their mothers has been gradually faded. It is doubtful that the modern generation, raised in such an environment, will be able to cope with setbacks in the future. From this point of view, when raising a child, it is important for mothers of the new generation to make as many unique flavors as possible by hand, so that the child can be impressed by them.

At present, processed foods are particularly convenient because they include hamburgers, fried chicken nuggets, curry rice, beef noodles, and frozen foods such as dumplings, buns, yuanxiao, and siu mai. There is nothing wrong with the processed food itself, but the problem lies in the partiality of the diet, especially when all meals are prepared with this kind of processed food, and there is a nutritional bias.

The so-called "stabilizing food" refers to the kind of food and flavor that can help you get better and overcome the frustration and depression you experience at work or in life. The "stabilizing food" is "mother's taste".

Here it is recommended that housewives try to make their own soup, and make a few unique food, they first try to eat, and then do it to their husbands and children to eat, to observe whether there is such a role, and if there is, then keep it and do it once in a while, so that the family is impressed, this is a kind of stability of the power of the family is also a source of happiness, absolutely do not ignore The latest research proved that children's emotional instability related to the diet.

Diet containing little calcium calcium has the role of inhibiting the brain nerve excitation, the brain nerve has enough calcium, easy to maintain emotional stability, lack of calcium will be emotionally disturbed, easy to provoke anger, weakness around the body.

Dietary sugar excess food desserts, drinks, so that the body of blood glucose, in order to reduce blood sugar, the pancreas must secrete a large amount of insulin, caused by paranephrine secretion of excess, thus causing irritability, anger, emotional instability.

B vitamin deficiency sugar intake is too much, to become heat, must consume B vitamins. If the diet is deficient in B vitamins, it can cause hyperactivity and mood swings.

Vitamin C deficiency mental often nervous to consume vitamin C, dietary vitamin C insufficiency, brain nerve function will be reduced, will also produce emotional instability.

Dietary mood control is conducive to scientific health

Dietary mood refers to the emotional state of the eaters in the eating process, that is to say, eaters before and after eating for a certain period of time to maintain a quiet and pleasant mood, then help the digestion and absorption of food. This mood is both calm and gentle, but also soothing and cheerful. Sun Simiao, the medical sage of the Tang Dynasty, once said, "Anger is qi up, joy is qi slowing down, sadness is qi canceling out, shock is qi disruption, and thought is qi knotting up." When the human body is in a situation where the qi and blood are not normal, the digestive function will be affected in some way. Probably everyone has had such an experience, when the mood fluctuations, even if the table with a variety of delicious food, will eat and do not know its flavor.

Diet can cause physical pleasure. When the Arabs hold banquets, they sing and dance around the bonfire before eating, and their appetites are particularly good during the meal. The Chinese eat in a banquet with toasts and laughter, and the atmosphere is what they eat.

On the contrary, eating can cause physical discomfort and great mood swings. For example: the Song dynasty great writer Su Shi was trapped in prison for outspokenness, and his son agreed that if the letter of danger, to the prison to send a meal with a fish flavor. After his son went out, he forgot to tell his family about it. Once home to send a meal specially made a fish Dongpo love to send to prison, Dongpo see fish, thought the murder is about to come, very alarmed, and then mountain prison after a lifetime no longer eat fish.

Feudal times, in the death of prisoners before the execution of the day before the dinner, dishes are particularly rich, and a pot of wine, but the prisoners as soon as they see the delivery of wine and food know that their doom has come, most people will let out a loud cry, very few people can swallow. This kind of emotional reaction accompanied by the sensory process, psychologists call it the feeling of the "emotional tone".

To keep people in a good mood during meals, it is necessary to study the psychological state of people when eating. If you want to make the banquet participants always in the best state of mind to the table, want to do this is not very easy. To make the guests in the banquet process, always maintain the best state, we must pay attention to the various factors affecting people's mental state. Such as punctual punctual banquet, banquet environment beautiful, clean and comfortable, music, music, delicious dishes, beautiful shape, colorful and colorful, etc., so that the eaters always maintain a comfortable mood, a strong appetite for mental state. Create a good eating environment, maintain a pleasant eating mood, for everyone's health and longevity are crucial. As an eater, you should try to get rid of bad mood in eating, so as not to affect the digestion and absorption of food, affecting the flavor and elegance of food, so that physical and mental health is damaged.

Music is an indispensable aid to food. What kind of music to choose at a banquet is very delicate. Music experts believe that soft and light music, can cause a quiet and pleasant mood, and therefore conducive to the digestion and absorption of food. In many major banquets, playing serenades and waltzes and other light music, in our country's national banquet, playing the elegant national music.