Is your mind always busy with thoughts - juggling hectic work tasks and meeting deadlines, along with household chores and a billion other things? With constantly pinging messages, notifications, and endless social media scrolling, our minds are bound to feel overwhelmed by consuming too much information in a very short time. While there are some unhealthy lifestyle choices you can consciously avoid, in our modern-day lifestyle, it can be difficult to "keep calm" and still "carry on." In such a scenario, the food we eat and how we eat it can play a tremendous positive role in keeping anxiety at bay and helping you feel calmer.
How? Read on. 1. Mindful Eating Keeps Stress at Bay Eating mindfully means you are using all your physical and emotional senses to experience the process of eating your food.
You are not checking your messages while eating or watching TV. According to a research paper published in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal , mindful eating is an opportunity to non-judgmentally become aware of internal and external cues, sensations, and emotions. Mindful eating nurtures PSNS dominance - the condition of the nervous system associated with reduced stress.
2. Avoid Foods with Sugar and Caffeine Avoid unhealthy foods, such as those high in sugar (candy, cookies) and caffeine . When feeling stressed, you may feel low in energy and are likely to reach for sugary or high-caffeine food or drinks.
However, Children's Hospital Colorado explains that simple sugars.