Calm Your Mind With Food

Mood Food of the Week: Kiwi.

Are you looking for ways to naturally boost your mood and emotional well-being? Are you interested in making healthy choices now that will benefit your health in the future?

Nutritional Psychiatry focuses not only on how specific foods help improve our mood and reduce stress but also to use food to impact our cognitive ability and memory as we age.

Simple adjustments can slowly but steadily become habits you can incorporate for the rest of your life to create lasting mental fitness.

Mood: Depression

Food: Kiwi

Research has shown that Kiwis can help calm the mind because…

They are loaded with carotenoids and polyphenols, forms of antioxidants that help to reduce neuroinflammation as well as symptoms of depression.

Kiwis are an excellent source of Vitamin C, a vitamin that also acts as an antioxidant to fight the damaging effects of oxidative stress and boost mood.

They are also rich in fiber, which helps to support a healthy gut microbiome and a happy mind.

How to add this MOOD FOOD to your diet:

Kiwis are juicy green fruits whose flesh is delicious when enjoyed just as is! They can be eaten alone as a snack, incorporated in a fruit salad with your favorite berries, used to top a homemade chia seed pudding, added to a leafy green salad, or even blended into a green smoothie! Kiwi fruits have a fuzzy skin that many choose to scoop the fruit out of, but the skin can be eaten as well. Many people like to have kiwi as an evening snack or ‘dessert’ because they are naturally rich in serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps to regulate the sleep cycle.