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DEL.ICIO.USYour food, your mood
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Comfort foods and snacks give us a quick pick-me-up, but they often lead to a crash soon afterwards. This is especially true for those comforts high in sugar, fat or caffeine.
The link between your diet and your mood goes much deeper than the “you are what you eat” adage. In some cases, psychiatrists and dietitians recommend that patients fight depression through nutrition instead of drugs.
So the next time you feel like wallowing in a pint of ice cream, do you think you can settle for blueberries, pumpkin seeds and Vitamin D milk? Do you have the will power? What do you eat when you’re low? Is it healthy or a guilty pleasure?
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By melodie
October 30, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
I like a scoop of Breyers all natural vanilla ice cream with fresh blueberries added to it. You can add the fruit of your choice and the ice cream is so much better then if you were to buy say strawberry ice cream. If you add fresh strawberries to vanilla ice cream for some reason it just taste better. Sometimes I crush almonds or cashews and put on a scoope of vanilla ice cream. I use either raw nuts or dry roasted unsalted. Yummy.