Good and Bad Food for Your Stress - Even though you have eaten and exercised regularly, sometimes you still can't get away from anxiety and stress attacks. Apparently, a regular diet supported by exercise is still not enough to help you avoid this one mental disorder. This is because there are still many factors that can trigger you to be stressed, one of them is through the food you consume yourself.
Indeed, there are healthy foods that can relieve stress symptoms and prevent them from coming back if consumed properly and regularly. But in fact, there are still many foods that can have the opposite effect: that can trigger your body to release certain hormones until finally the stress effects come to you.
Now, of the many foods on the outside there that are dangerous and healthy, here we give a few examples of good and bad food for those of you who are suffering from stress.
Bad Food for Stress
First of all, you must know in advance what foods can trigger stress, or even make your stress worse.
Ice cream
Sweet and delicious ice cream may indeed cool your mouth, but unfortunately not for your brain and mind. In fact, foods packed with refined sugar will only increase levels of stress hormones, including cortisol. This is because your body will not be able to use all refined sugars (unless you are recovering from an intense exercise session), so your blood glucose levels will drop dramatically. Your brain will then respond to these low blood glucose levels as a threat, so your body releases more cortisol.
Coffee
Almost everyone knows that coffee can boost your energy in the morning, and can even help to encourage your mood by stimulating dopamine activity, thereby decreasing your risk of depression. Unfortunately, this dopamine can also blunt the absorption of important mood-balancing nutrients such as vitamin D and vitamin B. This condition will be worsened if you put too much sugar or other sweetener into your coffee cup.
Tahu
Soybeans are a very dangerous threat when you are hit by stress. For example, according to agriculture.go.id, the raw materials of tofu in Indonesia are mostly from America imported into Indonesia. Meanwhile, more than 90% of soy products in America are GMO or GMO. In other words, every soybeans you consume with active ingredients of glyphosate, a type of herbicide that is proven to cause malnutrition, especially mood-setting minerals.
If you still want to get soy intake, then we recommend to prefer tempe or natto.
Wine
As we already know that alcoholic beverages are very taboo in Indonesia. Even a lot of restrictions from the government to consume them freely. As it turns out, the rule comes not without reason. In addition to making you unconscious, most alcoholic beverages can trigger you exposed to stress.
Indeed, alcoholic drinks can calm your mind at the beginning, but after a few hours, the effect will be like a boomerang for you. Consuming wine before bed can cause sleep problems, blood sugar swings, and dehydration - all of which can increase levels of stress hormones more and more.
Diet Soda
Just like wine, diet soda is able to calm your mind, but only temporarily. Once the effect disappears, you will be more anxious and your stress level will increase. Call it aspartame, a kind of artificial sweetener that you can find in any diet soda. The aspartame has been shown to block the production of neurotransmitter serotonin. This condition will cause various kinds of neuro diseases, including headaches, insomnia, mood swings, and including stress.
Good Food for Stress
Of the few examples of bad food for stress above, of course you can still find foods that provide beneficial effects for your mental health, which we will discuss below.
Spinach
When you are suffering from chronic stress, your brain will begin to produce excessive stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol, while reducing hormone levels of happy feelings called dopamine and serotonin. Fortunately, scientists believe that by increasing the intake of folic acid can help restore the level of the happy hormone. Therefore, try to consume foods that contain folic acid such as spinach, beans, asparagus, avocados, or broccoli.
Wild Salmon
Eating fatty fish like tuna and salmon can also help improve your mood. These types of fish are packed with omega-3s, a type of fatty acid that can make serotonin - a compound that makes you feel happy - it's easier to pass through cell membranes and increase levels there. Other advantages? Omega-3 fatty acids can also help reduce inflammation, the most common side effects of chronic stress.
Strawberry
This bright red fruit is not only packed with vitamin C, but is filled with antioxidants that have been proven to be able to help people deal with their stressful situations. According to one study, cortisol levels - one of the hormones produced when you are stressed - will decrease dramatically when a person consumes vitamin C.
Black Chocolate
Chocolate connoisseurs certainly feel happy to see their favorite foods on the list of the best foods to handle stress, and the fact is that. But make sure you choose chocolate that is really black - not chocolate that has been milk or white chocolate which is full of refined sugar.
Chocolate that is good for dealing with stress is cocoa containing more than 70% which contains high antioxidants. Health experts also prove that black chocolate is able to stimulate compounds that drive the feeling of happiness, especially serotonin.
Red peppersThis red vegetable may not be as delicious as the biscuits that you usually eat after going home from work or on the move, but red peppers have a far greater content than just 'junk-food snacks' that always accompany your days. Red peppers contain very high levels of vitamin C. It has also been proven that the antioxidant properties of vitamin C are able to fight free radicals and stubborn stress hormones.
Egg
Still not able to handle your stress? Then try delicious food produced by this hen. Eggs are very rich in vitamin D which can improve your mood. Although experts have not found the reason behind these effects, but vitamin D that you can also find in the sun has also been shown to increase levels of good hormone feelings including serotonin and dopamine in a person's brain. Plus, eggs are packed with tryptophan, a type of amino acid needed to produce serotonin.
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