Food and Mood.

What we eat affects how we feel. Not just our physical well-being, but our mental and emotional health as well. Get to know what foods make you feel good and which ones don’t. Anything with sugar in it will make you feel good for a while. But once blood sugar crashes, you may experience the opposite effect.

In a 2020 article published for the British Medical Journal, Thebjm, the authors explain how certain foods affect our mental and emotional health and well-being. Correlations are made between how our food choices change depending on our psychological and emotional state. Foods that we crave during times of stress like, “comfort food” for example, may not feel so comforting hours or days later. The authors make the point by saying,

“ Although mood itself can affect our food choices, plausible mechanisms exist by which high consumption of processed carbohydrates could increase the risk of depression and anxiety—for example, through repeated and rapid increases and decreases in blood glucose”

(Firth, J., et al., BMJ (2020).

To read the full article, click here . An interesting read that provides valuable insights and the facts behind what and how we eat has the ability to affect our emotional state and why.

Reference

Firth, J., (November, 2020), Food and Mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing?, BJM 2020; 371 doi: https://.org/10.1136/bjm.m4269