- Fruit Juice- Drinking fruit juice is just drinking nutritious sugar water that can quickly hype you up --and bring you down just as fast. It can leave you hungry and angry - "hangry".
- Regular Soda- It has blood spiking sugar with none of the nutrition. Sugar sweetened drinks like soda or cold drinks have a direct link to depression too.
- Diet Soda- Diet soda may make you more depressed than regular soda and too much of caffeine that many soda have can be bad for anxiety, too.
- White bread toast- The highly processed white flour quickly turns to blood sugar . That can cause energy spikes and crashes that can be bad for anxiety and depression.
- 'Light' Dressing - The packaged ones have High fructose corn syrup and the sugar free ones have aspartame. Both are linked to anxiety and depression.
- Ketchup - It contains lots of sugar and the lighter version have artificial sweeteners that could be linked to anxiety and depression.
- Coffee- If you are not used to it, the caffeine in it can make you jittery and nervous.
- Energy drinks- Can cause weird heart rhythms, anxiety and sleep issues because of the caffeine levels , sugars or artificial sweeteners.
- Alcohol - Even a little can mess up your sleep which can raise anxiety and cause depression . Too much sleep can cause even more problems
- Frosting- Partially hydrogenated oil is the culprit. It is also found in fried foods, pizza dough, cakes, cookies or biscuits and crackers.
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- Soy Sauce- It can cause anxiety and depression. It can also make feel sluggish and not at your best.
- Processed foods- Contains sugar, salts, fats which lead to anxiety and depression.
- Doughnuts- made up of wrong kind of fats and flour and added sugar
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To feel better just steer clear of these foods. Eat whole fruits. Drink water. Use whole grain breads. read the labels. Use homemade chutneys. Eat good fats like fish, olive oil, nuts, avocados.
These will definitely boost up your mood.
