Healthy Eating Schedule

healthy eating schedule

Does Your Diet Rate As Natural Anxiety Medicine? – Take the Food and Mood Quiz

If you also have a high sugar diet, you may need to shore up your facts about healthy eating. See how your food choices rate in this next quiz.

Food & Mood Quiz
1) You eat a lot of sugary foods; muffins, candy bars, cakes
2) You eat white wheat bread as a staple
3) You like mostly starchy vegetables such as potatoes and corn
4) You eat a lot of fried and fast foods
5) Most of your foods are canned, packaged with many additives
6) French fries and iceberg lettuce are your main two vegetables
7) You are addicted to caffeine and drink 3 – 8 cups of coffee per day
You rarely drink water
9) Alcohol is an important part of your life, at least 2 glasses per day
10) You skip meals, especially breakfast and sometimes lunch as well
11) You never or seldom eat fish (except deep fried)
12) Soda pop or diet drinks are your main beverages (3 or more a day)
13) You crave milk, pasta, cheese, cereals, bread, apple juice or orange juice

If your score is:
1 – 5 You try to eat healthfully but sometimes slip up. Choose a healthier, natural diet to boost brain and body health.

Even for those taking medications, enlisting holistic nutrition can bring profound, positive changes to your mental health. Also, some people react to nightshade vegetables (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers). You may react to other foods. To be certain, food allergy testing is a good option.

Healthy Eating Schedule for Mental Health

Some amino acids have a direct affect on levels of certain brain chemicals. Eating foods naturally high in tryptophan (fish, chicken, meat, eggs, dairy food, legumes, beans, tofu, walnuts and avocado) can improve mood as the tryptophan is converted by the body to serotonin (the happy neurotransmitter). Serotonin elevates moods, self-esteem, feelings of optimism and induces calm feelings and sleep.

Carbohydrates help absorption of tryptophan into the brain. Slow releasing carbohydrates such as oatmeal and natural sugars in fruits and vegetables can help the absorption of tryptophan across the blood brain barrier. Eat these with protein. Refined sugar creates cravings and dependency.

Avoiding all fat can lead to anxiety, depression and other mental health problems. Healthy fats are also foods that reduce cholesterol. Omega 6 fats are found in nuts and seeds and other cold pressed, healthy oils. Vitamins and Minerals are co-factors, nutrients that help the conversion of the tryptophan protein fragments into the good mood brain chemical serotonin.

How To Live To 120 And Die Healthy – Keys To Good Nutrition And Tips to Eating Healthy

- Brett Rademacher

If you don’t have your health, what do you have left? The pleasure of your existence and the significance of your purpose usually depend on being healthy enough to enjoy your life and do something with it.

If I were a big food manufacturer and restaurant owner, and I were to offer you cheap, great tasting food (including junk food of all kinds, fast food of every type, packaged foods of every variety and taste, canned foods that were highly convenient, sweet foods that were simply delicious loaded with fats, sugars, and carbs, etc.), would you sell your future health to me by buying my food?

I don’t have to sell you my future health to eat your food. The TRUTH is – every time you eat unhealthy, denatured, packaged, man-made processed foods from the supermarket and from restaurants, you are selling your future health and will some day reap what you have sown into your body – sickness, physical health problems, and illness of all kinds imaginable. The above illustration reminds me of the story of Jacob and Esau. Jacob was relaxing and enjoying some good lentil soup he had made. Esau then sold Jacob his birthright for the price of a bowl of lentil soup! Every day people “sell their birthright to health” to the food manufacturers and restaurant owners of America, just in order to satisfy their hunger for something that tastes good to them (junk food, fast food, fattening food, whatever). People are literally trading away their health for ill-health. They are exchanging their future health for present gratification.

Don’t despise your health birthright, as Esau did, and sell it for some unhealthy processed food that will satisfy your stomach only temporarily, but that will eventually rob you of your health and enjoyment of this life.

If you’re not sure, then go visit a hospital ward and a nursing home and meet the people there who are dying prematurely of dreaded illnesses. Do you really want to die young and die unhealthy, or would you prefer to live long and die healthy when you’re 120?

It’s your choice: health or ill-health, based upon healthy eating habits or unhealthy eating habits. Tomorrow?