By (c) 2005 Jérôme SAUTRET (image by myself) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post we will be discussing another type of food that can help you deal with stress and even reduce it, sweet potato. But before we go on I have a confession to make, I don’t like …
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Food that calms you down: Honey
By Scott Bauer, USDA ARS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In this post I am going to be talking about what most people consider the healthy alternative to sugar, what Winnie the Pooh loves the most and what bees work on making all day, every day. That’s right, in this post I talk about honey. …
Foods that reduce stress: Milk
By Cgoodwin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons Drink your milk kids, drink it to the very last drop, do that and you will grow up to be big and strong. Do those words sound familiar? These are the types of words grownups would tell us when we were kids. Some …
Food that reduces stress: Cashew nuts
By User Femto on en.wikipedia (Femto) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post we are going to be talking about another food that can help against stress, cashew nuts. If you have never had cashew nuts before, they are delicious, it is impossible to describe a taste properly but all I can say …
Food that calms you down: Avocado
By Kjokkenutstyr (Avocado on Board - Flickr) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m kind of sad about this post, but before I explain why let me ask you something. Amongst all the people currently reading this post who honestly likes avocados? Let me say right off the bat I don’t. I can’t remember when …
Food that adds to stress: Processed food (Like hot dogs)
Writing this post makes me a little sad, mainly because I like junk food so much and I’m pretty sure many of you will agree with me on that. Hot dogs, sausages, pies, cakes, we love them, they are filling and they taste great; but we need to face facts. They are not good for …
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Stress relief in the now: Eat a Banana or a Potato
Don’t ask me why but for some reason the internet is filled with potatoes, I mean I like potato chips as much as the next, but come on. According to urban dictionary it is a way to describe something of low quality like a microphone, as in, “This sounds so bad it’s like it was recorded …
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Food that adds to stress: Caffeine
By Ralf Junghanns (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Hello everyone and welcome to this new thing I am starting where I talk about food and drink and basically anything you can consume which will add to your stress if you take too much of it. Before I continue I would like to clear …
Foods that reduce stress: Turkey Breast
By Gary M. Stolz, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve talked about food that reduces stress before but I’m really looking forward this instalment of it because in this one I get to talk about one of my favourite types of food, turkey, more specifically the breast part. I can’t …
Getting rid of stress with yogurt
By Dirk Schneider (ds-foto) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Earlier I wrote a post which talked about eating a snack to calm down and I mentioned the gut brain axis. In it I talk about how eating can calm us down and also about how stress can lead to constipation. But the thing is, …
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