Category Archives: vitamins

Food that improve sleep!

Sleep impacts your daily choices from your food to the way you think. Including  how your nerves communicate to each other.

When you are sleep deprived there are risks such as diabetes,health failure,depression, diabetes.

Sleep is so important for your brain to be able to relax and reset for another day.

How does food effect my eating habits?

When your body has not rested and has not reset your brain will be looking for high calorie foods for energy. As your body makes more ghrelin and less leptin.

Melatonin

Melatonin is classified as the sleeping drug as it reduces throughout the day and on a night time acts like a receptors at night time to encourage sleep

Here are 5 foods that will help your body sleep!!

Warm milk

Yes!!! you see that right warm milk. Warm milk helps your brain relax as it makes you are consuming Tryptophan which will make Seritonin to make your mood stabilise and your stress levels to drop so you feel more relaxed for sleep.

Lettuce

Yes this a little weired but listen to me lettuce has lactur carium which helps to calm your nerves system and helps you to relax. So if you like salads have some lettuce before bed and sleep

Bananas

Bananas have a high count off potassium and magnesium which helps to relax your muscles.

Salmon

Salmon is high in vitamin b6 which helps your body go into a Tryptophan and promotes Seritonin.salmon is also very high in protein which promotes fullness threw the night

Green tea

Green tea reduces your Cortisol and cuts down the excitement level in your brain and helps your brain to relax

Sleeping is important part off you try to set a sleeping pattern and let your brain and your body relax.

Foods that improves moods!

We have all heard the saying “eat all your food to make you big and stronge” but is there any truth in the saying.

Infact as a child the benefits of eating certain foods can do just that! Foods such as milk and yogurts can make your bones grow and help with the development of strength due to is high volume of calcium.

Your greens as a child will help you to have some more energy due to its B vitamins and will help support your brain health with also making red and white blood cells.

But… as a adult do we really need to be eating our 5 a day? The answer to that is yes.

Greens such as kale and spinach help to keep our brain sharp and keeps your brain from declining even the small amount of leafy greens like a cup full will help your brain to keep sharp.

Dairy on the other hand will help with your bone health and keep your bones strong due to the high amounts of calcium.

I have a full page of what vitamins do for your body.

But today we are going to be talking about what foods improve your moods

How do foods improve your moods?

Well foods don’t just improve your mood in a positive way they can also affect your mood in a negative way due to different types off foods realising different type off chemicals.

These chemicals are.

  • Dopamine:provides energy (also know as the love drug)
  • Acetylcholine: that helps to enhance mood and memory
  • Seritonin: can help to lessen depressive moods
  • Norepinephrine helps to provide energy.

What foods effects my brain in a negative way

Sugar

Sugar will give your brain a little bit off a high boost and then effectively make you crash and burn. Sugar is also know to make you crave to eat or drink sugary foods such like a drug

Fried foods

Fried foods just like sugar make you crave more fried foods because off how much salts and sugars go into the deep fried goodness this will trick your brain into thinking you are getting vitamins and minerals so your body craves more

Aspartame

Although aspartame is not a food its self it is a crystalline molecule it is still in most “diet” products such as diet cola. Aspartame can cause headakes,dizziness,fatigue and changes in heart rate

Mood boosting vitamins and minerals

  • Iron
  • Zinc
  • Vitamin c
  • Calcium
  • Folic acid
  • Vitamin d
  • Omega-3

5 foods that help to boost your mood!!!

1 lentils

Lentils contain iron which has been linked to helping improve depression.

2 dark greens

The calcium and vitamin D in kale and different greens will help you boost energy and help to improve depression and depressive symptoms

3 salmon

Salmon can help with the cognitive processs as it has a lot off omega 3 also helps to to improve memory

4 banana’s

Bananas have vitamin b6 in which helps to turn tryptophan into the moods lifting hormone serotonin.

5. Dark chocolate

Helps to boost memory ,attention span and reaction time

So the truth behind “eat all your food to make you big and strong”

Yes there is truth behind it but it all depends on what food you are eating and how much off the food you are eating

Eatting more food to boost your mind can help you live a longer and healthier life and can also keep your mind sharper and fuller. It can also help with depression and anxiety to.

So next time you go out and you want that piece off delicious looking cake. Will it be worth it?