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Cravings

Comfort Foods: Nostalgia or Neurochemistry?

Fortunately, the increase in emotional comfort and decrease in stress experienced after eating carbohydrates is not dependent on changing food choices or new foods entering the supermarket. Carbohydrates will elicit a positive mood, regardless of whether the food was also eaten by one’s grandparents or is new to the contemporary eater. After eating pasta or quinoa, oatmeal or farro, or orange or purple sweet potatoes, relief from feeling down or anxious or tense.

Emotional Eating

Using Imagery to Overcome Obstacles

Using imagery to formulate a specific action in response to a specific obstacle can give you clarity about what actions will support your goal, confidence to follow through, and, ultimately, the success you’re aiming for.

Energy

Turmeric Cauliflower Soup with Fresh Herbs

Turmeric is well-known in Ayurvedic and South Asian cuisines for it’s anti-inflammatory, balancing properties. The spice contains curcumin which has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, analgesic, anti-aging & anti-cancer properties as well as positive effects on your brain function & mood. This easy turmeric cauliflower soup recipe is a great way to incorporate turmeric into your diet.

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Antidepressants

An Orchestra Provides a Joyful and Safe Space for Those Affected by Mental Illness

Those with mental illness and their families are aware of the stigma associated with these disorders. We share information about other medical conditions with friends, co-workers, and casual acquaintances without worrying that we might be rejected as employees, friends, or participants in volunteer, religious, and charitable organizations. The Me2Orchestra is a stigma-free zone for people affected by mental illness to focus on joy and who they are rather than being defined by their diagnosis.

Antidepressants

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Halloween Candy

By eating healthy, low fat carbohydrate options like sweet potatoes and whole grain crackers rather than candy, you’ll eat less, have the benefit of nutritious foods, your cravings will be satisfied sooner, and you’ll be more likely to avoid unwanted weight gain due to SAD.

Energy

Healthy Fats Can Improve Your Mental Health

The type of fat you eat matters. The reason is twofold: to get the health and nutrient benefit of healthy fats, and to avoid the negative effects of unhealthy fats.
Aim for omega-3 fatty acids and organic and grass-fed foods, and avoid processed and trans fats.

Antidepressants

Feeling Worthy and Your Well Being

You are as worthy as everything and everyone else you care about. The key is to balance how you spend your time so that you are at least on equal par with other things and people that matter to you in your life.

Antidepressants

Open Yourself to Fun

We might overlook the pleasure that our taking pleasure in something (or someone) gives others. A shared laugh, story, or experience, even with a stranger, improves the moods of everyone. And often, if we hold onto the memory of the fun experience, watching a parade of ducks or meeting an old acquaintance while going about the mundane experiences of the day, it makes the stress of those less fun encounters so much more bearable.

Health

How to Manage a Diet When Someone Else is Making Your Food Choices

The biggest obstacle a dieter faces is lack of control over the food being prepared. This can be the case in the workplace or at home. Buying calorie-controlled meals from a weight-loss organization can help dieters stay on track, although lifestyle choices can still interfere. Ideally, dieters should take the person whom they eat with at home to meet their dietician or weight-loss coach, so everyone’s on the same page.

Recipes

Roasted Lemon Dijon Purple Potatoes

Purple potatoes are denser, often drier, and nuttier than white varieties. You can cook them as you would usual white varieties. We love this lemon dijon roasted version and hope you will, too!

Energy

The True Paleo Diet Included Carbs!

Recently published archeological research demonstrates that ancient man ate starchy carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are important for brain development and overall health.

Health

Menopause and Weight Gain

Stressful moods, disrupted sleep, and decreased exercise that characterize perimenopause can all contribute to weight gain. An increased appetite for carbohydrates caused by low estrogen and serotonin can also contribute. Think PMS cravings, but for months instead of days.

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Comfort Foods: Nostalgia or Neurochemistry?

Using Imagery to Overcome Obstacles

Turmeric Cauliflower Soup with Fresh Herbs

An Orchestra Provides a Joyful and Safe Space for Those Affected by Mental Illness

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and Halloween Candy

Healthy Fats Can Improve Your Mental Health

Feeling Worthy and Your Well Being

Open Yourself to Fun

How to Manage a Diet When Someone Else is Making Your Food Choices

Roasted Lemon Dijon Purple Potatoes

The True Paleo Diet Included Carbs!

Menopause and Weight Gain

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