Connections between Your Food, Depression and Anxiety
Nowadays anxiety and depression may have a large number of causes. For some people depression is caused by financial problems, social and familial problems, diseases or loss of a beloved person. In order to keep depression and anxiety away from ourselves we should have self respect, to know our limits and to feel good on what we are and who we are. In this sense a strong spiritual life will help us get over the daily small battles.
Most people don't even suspect the importance of food in our life. They only know basically that some aliments may be damaging but what they ignore is that some kinds of food may represent sources for anxiety and depression. Psychologists and psychiatrists are aware of the number of people affected by this apparently small issue and try to explain it to their patients.
So, Marnie figured out that dairy, wheat and sugar caused her insomnia. She would wake up at around 3:00 in the morning experiencing intense anxiety, and would be tired and depressed the next day. By experimenting around changing her diet, she discovered that she slept fine when she stopped eating dairy, wheat and sugar. All her nighttime anxiety disappeared and so did tiredness and depression.
Joel found out that his sleepless nights causing depression were a direct result of caffeine from coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks. He never realized how much caffeine he was actually consuming until he was suggested to give up all caffeine and see what changes in his sleep problems. Caffeine withdrawal caused a week of headaches, then he could sleep a whole night after many years and depression was gone.
Adrienne saw that her anxiety and depression, that she experienced most of her life, disappeared after her diet changed to organic foods only. Anxiety and depression were caused by the pesticides and food additives in non – organic food that caused her anxiety and depression.
Alex experienced temporary episodes of depression. He discovered that the raw milk had a better effect on him than pasteurized milk. He discovered raw diary products in a health food store in Los Angeles . Raw products are outlawed in most other states. This kind of products gave him energy and elevated his moods. Thus he ended his relation with depression.
People should be explained that sugar based foods are very harmful for their moods. Those who tried different diets and changed sugar for other products have experienced major improvement.
In the past, when people consumed only non – processed foods who they organically grown took from them all the nutrients they needed. Nowadays fruits and vegetables are grown in devitalized soil and more than that, they are over processed. The animals were fed with grass instead of pesticide – sprayed grains and hormones. Today, instead of nutrients we can find toxins in foods that can cause deficiencies and diseases.
Food definitely plays an important role in the apparition of anxiety, depression and other diseases. Everyone should know how to change that.