2nd January – A mindful moment
A moment of mindfulness. Find a moment of mindfulness somewhere during the course of your day. This is not doing a formal mindfulness practice or a whole session, instead finding opportunities to be mindful throughout the course of the day. It can be something incredibly simple and everyday, such as waiting for the kettle to boil and listening to the sounds it makes, watching the leaves on the trees move, or noticing how your feet feel when you walk. ❄️❄️❄️❄️For me, this morning I was lucky enough to be stood in a snow shower, and whilst waiting for my car to defrost enough to be able to drive to work…
Vitamin C can help make you happy!
Most people have heard of vitamin C and have heard that it’s good for the immune system… in fact, people have been recommending hot lemon for colds since before they knew what vitamin C was. …but did you know that it is also good a powerful antioxidant? Antioxidants are health promoting substances which help prevent cell damage in the body, so can help reduce many risks, including heart disease and cancer. Vitamin C is also a co-factor essential for the production of serotonin and dopamine, which are our happy mood-lifting neurotransmitters. So, increasing your vitamin C levels by increasing your intake of whole foods containing vitamin C might help boost…
The link between fast food and depression
🍴Increased consumption of fried 🍟🥓🍔sugary 🧁🍿& processed🥪🍕 foods is associated with increased risk of both anxiety and depression. ✅These large observational studies don’t give us reasons why eating more processed food or fast food increases the chances of people having depression, but it does suggest that there is very likely a link between the two. 🍅🍌🥦As an extra benefit, increasing your intake of “whole-foods” (ie vegetables and fruit and anything unprocessed) seems to be protective against depression. 👍Avoiding fast food and processed food (for example burgers, fried foods, pastries and high-sugar foods) is side-effect free, so it’s surely worth a try to see if it helps? 📖references:📚Akbaraly TN, et al.…
