How Your Diet Can Have an Impact on Your Mental Health
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Have you ever heard the question, ‘what’s cooking for dinner?’ at the office of the psychiatrist? There are several types of research which found that a proper diet full of nutrition is not just good for your body but it is also good for your brain. This is gradually giving birth to a new concept which is known as nutritional psychiatry. If you ask a reputed psychiatrist, you will find him telling that he hasn’t been trained to ask any queries about nutrition and food but at the same time they also believe that diet is extremely important as it plays a role in improving the mental health of people.
If you get in touch with counselors from e-counseling.com, you’ll get to know that there are similar ways in which they too preach the direct link between your diet and mental health. In fact, the risk of suffering from depression also increases by 80% when you consider teens with the poorest quality diet. (1)
An idea that is gradually gaining momentum
Even 5 years back, the entire idea of nutritional psychiatry didn’t register with the health care radar. There had been very few studies that examined how few health supplements like omega-3 fatty acids would help in balancing your mood. There was a lack of solid and consistent data previously but things have changed now.
However, experts say that there have been different studies which have been published all over the world which spoke about a link between the quality of diet and mental disorders like anxiety and depression in adults and kids. Currently, there is a rather large body of proof which shows that diet is equally vital for mental health as it is to physical health. While it is protective to have a healthy diet, it is always bad to have an unhealthy duet which also fosters anxiety and depression. This is something that was confirmed by a recent article from Parenting Pod.
3 Ways diet has a positive impact on your mental health
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It is important for the development of the brain
We are what we eat! Whenever you put in real food inside your stomach, it nourishes your own self; it becomes the building blocks of enzymes, neurotransmitters, brain tissue and transfers signals of information from different parts of the body.
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It puts the brain into a mode of growth
There are few dietary and nutrition pattern are linked to different brain changes which increase the connection between the cells of the brain. This helps the brain to grow.
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The gut is filled with healthy bacteria
Healthy bacteria is good for your brain and there are trillions of healthy bacteria living in your gut and when your immune system is working perfectly, this will tame inflammation inside your body.
Therefore, now that you know how diet has a positive impact on your body, you should follow the right diet for improving your mental health. (2)
