How can a poor diet impact my mood?

How can a poor diet impact my mood?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: How can a poor diet impact my mood?; How is a poor diet related to infertility?; What foods should I avoid if I want to eat a healthy diet? and more...

Poor diet is an absolute predictor of depression, poor moods, low moods, feeling overwhelmed, unable to handle the complications of life that are thrown at us each day. That is because of what we are lacking and those are what we call the B vitamins, Vitamin C, the stress vitamins and nutrients. And, of course, along with that we need a major number of minerals which are naturally occuring in whole food as well, magnesium, selenium, zinc. All of these nutrients work together to create a fully-functioning body that can handle any kind of stress. When we take in, for example, too much sugar, that destroys our B vitamins and our Vitamin C as well. So people who are either drinking a lot of alcohol or eating a lot of high sugar foods, alcohol turns to sugar quickly, any of those types of things will cause us to burn up more of our B vitamins and Vitamin C and if we are not getting them from the foods we eat, the likelihood is we will fall into depression and that sense that life is too much for us. We can't handle it. We are overwhelmed all the time. We feel depressed and sad and lonely and major complex of feelings that go with not being nutritionally taken care of.