How would you like to release your stress through food?
Why do you think food impact your mood?
Does chocolate the only stress free food? Is it a myth or a facts?
These type of question normally been ask if we are talking about stress. How will mood have any relationship with food? Do people really believe having good food can ease the tension that we have in our brain? If yes how and if no why? Actually, food does have an impact to our mood. We do see people easy to get angry when they are hungry. People tends to get lazy when they are bloated with foods in their stomach. Food does have an impact if we are in a different moods of the day. Normally, there are two types of food which impact our stress level.
The first type of food will be the foods that helps use ease the anxiety and stress. Food such as dark chocolate are the most famous food people search to ease the hormone. However, do not mistake dark chocolate with sweet milky chocolate which don’t really help to ease our mood if we eat it! Other good food to ease out stress are nuts, fish with high omega-3 nutrient and yogurt. These are the food normally will help out in having better mood for the day. High protein food does show an impact to good mood because it helps the stomach feels full. Like once an old man says, a happy stomach is a happy man.
However, there are also foods that will not help in making things better. Having a combination of good and bad food did not help a person ease the burden of stress. Example of foods that need to avoid are coffee, sweets, alcohol and processed food. These type of food will only increase the heartbeat and in turn making the stress level getting higher. Drinks such as coffee if drink consistently in high stress situation will have a risk of staying awake and pushing your body over the limit which increase the stress into the body and impacted the mental health in long run.
What’s more important is to know what type of food we are taking into our body. Understanding the mental state and also recognizing type of food for the body are important to keep our mental health to be healthy. Having a strong body comes from a strong mental health. So how strong are you?
by
Mr Khairul Mazlan
