Diet to reduce Anxiety :
-Prolonged Anxiety hinders your normal body and brain function - makes you more lethargic and reduces your reasoning capacity
Anxiety arises from depressive negative event, visuals / thoughts even news/ messages
It’s impact is silent but deep
- Drink enough water every two hours
- Avoid nerve stimulants like coffee, alcohol and tobacco
- Avoid refined sugar and Table salt (Alternate with Jaggery powder and non Iodized rock salt or Himalayan pink salt)
- Consume more gut friendly Pro biotic fermented foods like sour buttermilk, naturally fermented idli / dosa batter
- Include more green leafy vegetables as soup, Sabji and salad. Magnesium in these help greatly to manage the mood swings due to anxiety
-Reduce and limit your complex carbohydrates consumption like bread, polished rice, pasta
- Avoid spicy and deep fried fast food of any sort
- Lookout for a seed based or nut based healthy snacks like lotus seeds, peanuts, Kulith, local bean
- Include powdered omega 3 rich seeds as toppings or ingredients in your roti or salad
- Include all local vegetable on rotation basis in your diet
- Minimise your grain intake and maximise your vegetables intake
- Beet and carrot are great Anti depressant