Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “How does food affects your mood?”in a holistic context. Though there are several neurotransmitters engaged, most of the relationship between nourishment and feeling centers on serotonin, the neurotransmitter responsible for feeling calm and relaxed and for experiencing a sense of well-being. Serotonin is also required for sleep.

 

Summary

Stop for an instant and believe about how nourishment affects your mood. If you're like many persons, you seem fuzzyheaded and sleepy after lunch. That's because your blood-sugar levels, which increase after you eat, stifle orexin, a mind chemical to blame for feeling alert. On the other hand, when you're really famished and your body-fluid sugar is reduced, more-primitive regions of the brain start taking charge, and you're more probable to become impatient, irritable and angry. After all, your distant ancestors had to be hard-hitting hunters if they wanted to survive. When it comes to the food-mood attachment, blood-sugar fluctuations are only the beginning. The quality and quantity of the nutrients available in our nourishment also proceed a long way toward working out our emotional resiliency and stability.The past 30 years have seen a steady nutritional erosion of the standard American diet.

Discussion

As we've become more reliant on convenience and fast foods, which are loaded with sugars, perfected carbs and empty calories, we've neglected the well-being of not just our bodies, but also of some very convoluted feeling machinery that resides inside it. It turns out that our moods, like our bodies, simply manage much better with fresh, entire foods that supply a wealth of protein, vitamins, minerals and healthy omega-3 fats. Why? Because, at origin, what we eat affects everything from our output of neurotransmitters and hormones to our power levels and the quality of our synaptic connections — all of which can work out how well we respond to the stresses and demands of daily living.(Challem, 23)

Increased irritability and depression are often described in studies where diets are too reduced in thiamin (vitamin B1). These problems resolve when thiamine wealthy foods are returned to the diet.

Depression may also be the only overt symptom of a gentle vitamin B12 deficiency. This vitamin is exclusive among vitamins in that it's discovered almost exclusively in foods of animal source such as meat, poultry, fish, for demonstration or dairy products. As a result strict vegetarians have an increased risk of B12 deficiency.(Roberts, 12) Older persons may have reduced B12 intakes as well. This is because we require a protein called intrinsic factor to assist us absorb B12.      

We make B12 in our stomachs but older persons may not make sufficient due to wasting and deteriorating stomach glands. In this case neither diet neither oral supplements will correct the difficulty and B12 must be injected or administered as a nasal spray. (Bakhru, 23)      People with a history of depression can also have smaller folate levels than those who had not ever been depressed. Current studies reconsidering the efficacy of treatments for depression are now discovering the use of folic ...