Eating Healthy Can Ease Anxiety Attacks

You can reduce the panic or anxiety in your life by making a conscious choice to eat healthier.

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?

1. Nuts or seeds. Particularly almonds and pumpkin seeds they are rich in vitamin B12 and zinc which helps to boost your mood.
2. 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.
3. Foods high in fiber, such as brown rice, brown bread, whole wheat pasta and low in salt.
4. Incorporate beans to your diet. Whether lentils, soybeans, navy or pinto they contain optimal amounts of magnesium that aids in muscle relaxation.
5. 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.
6. Skip the trans-fats. These are all bad for your heart so if it says “hydrogenated“ or “modified“ stay away.
7. Eat yogurt. Yogurt contains B-12 which can help in producing healthy nerve cells.
8. 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.
9. Salmon or chicken. Optimal amounts of niacin (B-3) which is needed for overall energy production.
10. Eating fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can boost the body’s stores of vitamins and minerals that are depleted by prolonged stress.

If you don’t see changes right away don’t be surprised, it takes time, maybe a few weeks before you start to notice changes but when you do, you’ll feel great!

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