Posted by Hello321 on April 18, 2016, at 14:00:49
In reply to Re: Relax » Hello321, posted by Phillipa on April 18, 2016, at 11:52:28
Phillipa, I didn't change my diet for weight reduction. I changed it in an attempt to benefit my overall well-being, and especially my emotional well-being. I've known a pharmacist at a compounding
pharmacy who is very into improving health in natural ways. Occasionally we would talk about ways I can get to feeling better, and he would often focusing on diet. How to eat. He would say to stop eating certain things. And I'd think, "that's a big part of my regular diet, it would be too hard". Then a couple of months ago it just hit me, if I'm not " putting good in", why should I expect good out? I had been thinking I eat decent enough. But now I realize, what if eating decent isn't good enough. I mean, if I'm eating decent, why do I feel so crappy? So I set out to try educating myself on just how ones diet affects their well-being. How it affects their brain. I still eat far from perfect, but I'm sure my diet is benefitting me far more than the way I was eating a couple of months ago.Some months ago my mindset about foods started to change a bit after I watched this video that I've posted on babble in the past.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Then I found this video a few weeks later and it really caught my eye:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y
He's, they're mainly about the terrible effects sugar has on the body. And how it dysrupts natural processes in our body, leading to diabetes. To obesity. To just bad health in general, and not really about mental health.
But I started getting really interested. Reading more articles on sugar. Then I stumbled upon the book "Grain Brain" at Barnes & Noble, that details the negative effects of our carbohydrate filled diets on our mental health. It focuses a lot on sugar and grains. All carbs are sugar. Some may digest slower than others, like white rice compared to brown rice. But they still affect our brain like sugar.
I could type all day on this, but Grain Brain makes the case that humans thousands of years ago survived mostly on fat, meat, and greens. And that today's carb rich diet, low fat diet goes against how our ancestors genes adapted. Leading to today's health problems. Sure there is much debate in anything that's far from the norm. We have it put into our minds that fats, especially saturated fats like in beef and milk, are bad. But our brains are made mostly of fat. Our brains thrive on a high healthy fat diet. And there seems to much debate about whether most types of fat are good. But I do believe it's fully agreed on that artificial trans fats are bad.
Anyways, like I said, there is a lot of debate about things like this. And I'd recommend reading "Grain Brain" and another book called "Brain Maker". Grain Brain was a big seller when it came out and is really interesting to me. But like it's said, knowledge is power. Just educate yourself. Try to gain the knowledge, the power, to improve your life and put it to good use. The more I understand the details on how our diet affects our well-being, the more not motivated I get to improve it.
We hear Omega 3 fats in wild fish like salmon can improve our brain function. But there's much more in our diet that can be adjusted to improve our brain function. Improved brain function of course leads to better mental health.
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