FOOD TO INCREASE HAPPINESS

If you like to get sad and nerves or get angry, you can start to pay attention on food you consume. According to a nutritionist, food you consume will make you feel better for short and long term.

1. You need to keep your glucose amount every day to keep you happy and energetic. If you have unstable feeling as easy to get mad and easy to get pleasant, you will not feel comfortable. This condition may appear when you are in hungry condition because of bad diet program or because of constipation.
2. Protect your body from various kinds of disease every week and every month. Certain nutrition you get from food you consume may influence your pleasant hormone as serotonin. Other nutrient will help to prevent inflammation, so that you will have good blood circulation.
3. Consume healthy food with high fiber and low trans fat are the best way to increase happiness as stated by Diane M Becker MPH, ScD, director for Health Promotion in John Hopkins School of Medicine.
4. It is better to avoid food with high glycemix because you will get worse feeling and easy to get sleepy.

Tips of Food and Drink Making You Happy

          You can select vitamin B12 and folic acid. Red nut and non fat beef, chicken Caesar salad, and grilled salmon are kind of food containing folic acid and other food with vitamin B12. Those two substance help to prevent center nerve system, mood disease, and dementia as stated by Edward Reynolds, MD in Institute of Epileptology, King’s College, England.

          The correlation between high volatile food intake and low depression symptom is found in some cultures. Folic acid is usually found in bean and green vegetable. Vitamin B12 is found in meat, fish, chicken, and milk product.

Other food containing a lot of vitamin B12 and folic acid are:

1. Burrito or enchilada made of black nut with beef and chicken meat
2. Spinach salad with crab and salmon
3. White egg omelet or spinach with cheese reducing fat

Consume Fruit and Vegetable

          Fruit and vegetable contains important nutrient and phytochemical anti-oxidant contributing on health and relating to health. In a study, eat 2 portions of fruit and vegetable every day is related to functional health which is 11 % higher. People who like to consume fruit and vegetable will happier than before.

Consuming High Selenium Food Every Day

          Selenium is mineral functioning as anti-oxidant in our body. Research shows that oxidative stress in our brain is related to some cases of depression of old people. A study evaluating depression shows that old people consuming 200 microgram selenium in a day have higher opportunity to reduce stress and depression. So, you can try to get 55 microgram selenium every day for women and men.

          Whole rice is included as special source of selenium. Some portion of whole rice as oatmeal, brown rice, you can get 70 microgram selenium in a day. Other food containing selenium are:

1. Bean and nut
2. non fat meat
3. milk product
4. seed
5. Seafood as snail, crab, sardine, and fish.

Consume Fish

          Some recent studies show that women has lower risk to get depression symptom when they consume more food, especially fatty fish as salmon containing high fatty acid omega 3.

          Omega 3 derived from fish give positive effect for feeling as depression postparfum as stated by a nutritionist from University of Tennessee. These are other sources of fatty acid omega 3 consisting of:

1. Herring
2. Rainbow trout
3. Salmon
4. Sardin
5. Tuna

Get Vitamin D

Sun light as source of vitamin D can make our body synthesize and control vitamin D. four recent studies show the correlation between vitamin D amount in low blood pressure and incident of 4 feeling disturbance; PMS pre-menstruation syndrome, seasonal affective disorder, no specified mood disorder, and major depression disorder.

Researcher in Medical University of South Carolina states that people can help to control feeling by getting 1.000 – 2,000 IU vitamin D in a day. This amount is more than Nutrition amount for 200 IU for adult people under 50 years old, 400 IU for 51 – 70 years old, and 600 IU for 70 years old above.

Besides, vitamin D can be found in

1. Fatty Fish as salmon, tuna, and mackerel
2. Beef
3. Cheese
4. Egg yellow