How Eating A Healthy Diet Can Ease Anxiety Attacks and How Panic Away Can Help
Decide to make healthier eating choices and it will help eliminate the anxiety attacks that hold you down.
Anxiety sufferers are usually deficient in vitamins and minerals such as the B-complex vitamins and magnesium.
B-Complex: Help the nervous system to function properly and help to bring energy to people who are constantly stressed.
Magnesium: Helps muscles to relax and maintenance of the heart muscle.
Instead of reaching for your favourite not so healthy foods to comfort you temporarily, reach for a healthy meal or snack, it can even out your mood or emotions and help to reduce stress and give you more energy.
Reduce or eliminate refined products or anything white like white bread, white rice, white pasta or white sugar these will leave you sluggish afterward and can contribute to mood swings.
Limit your caffeinated beverages. Consume in moderation, considered as a mild stimulant it affects the nervous system by increasing your heart rate. Also a diuretic, it can increase water loss through urination. Healthier alternatives would be water, herbal tea, milk or natural fruit juice.
So eat foods that give you a boost!
What Do I Eat?
- Skip the trans-fats. These are all bad for your heart so if it says “hydrogenated“ or “modified“ stay away.
- Eating fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can boost the body’s stores of vitamins and minerals that are depleted by prolonged stress.
- Foods high in fiber, such as brown rice, brown bread, whole wheat pasta and low in salt.
- Incorporate beans to your diet. Whether lentils, soybeans, navy or pinto they contain optimal amounts of magnesium that aids in muscle relaxation.
- Eat yogurt. Yogurt contains B-12 which can help in producing healthy nerve cells.
- Munch on celery. Celery contains active compounds called phthalides, which can help relax the muscles around arteries and allow those vessels to dilate. With more space inside the arteries, this can reduce blood pressure.
- Chocolate, certainly last but not least. Now we’re talking this isn`t just any kind of chocolate though it needs to be dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is rick in magnesium which so many people are deficient in. Look for the highest percentage of cocoa.
- Add spinach, turkey and greens to your diet. These foods contain tryptophan which helps to regulate your appetite and can improve your sleep at night.
- Salmon or chicken. Optimal amounts of niacin (B-3) which is needed for overall energy production.
- Nuts or seeds. Particularly almonds and pumpkin seeds they are rich in vitamin B12 and zinc which helps to boost your mood.
It may not happen overnight, it may be a few weeks before you really start noticing the changes. It worked for me and I was anxiety sufferer for over 10 years but by just incorporating some changes in my diet my whole mind and body felt stronger and healthier!
Learn more natural techniques to stop your anxiety or panic attacks with Panic Away. Barry Joe McDonagh was a long time anxiety sufferer himself and his One Move Technique has helped thousands of people conquer their anxiety permanently.
March 21 2010 04:12 am | Diseases, Conditions and Treatments
