Can Anxiety Diet Calm Your Nerves?
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Anxiety Diet
Although dealing with anxiety can be quite challenging, various self-help
strategies including eating a balanced diet combined with medications and
psychotherapy can be effective in treating anxiety.
Diet alone can't cure your anxiety disorder, however, following some of these
dietary changes may offer some relief:
- Eat foods high in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium - these minerals
are depleted by stress.
- These include -- apricots, avocados, bananas, blackstrap molasses, brewer's
yeast, brown rice, dried fruits, dulse, figs, fish, garlic, green leafy
vegetables, legumes, raw nuts and seeds, soy products, whole grains, and yogurt.

- Eat small frequent meals rather than three large meals a day.
- Limit your consumption of animal protein and eat meals high in vegetable protein
and complex carbohydrates.
- Carbohydrates are believed to increase your serotonin level in your brain, which
has a calming effect.
- Stay hydrated --drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Dehydration can affect
your mood and increase your anxiety.
- Avoid caffeinated food and beverage such as coffee, chocolate, black tea, cola.
- Another
recommendation is to avoid food that has refined sugar or
other simple carbohydrates.
- Avoid foods that can trigger allergies and sensitivity -- these foods can also
trigger anxiety attacks.

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It is important to emphasize that you should not reject mainstream medical attention and guidance and the use of recommended products,
treatments, and remedies for individual disorder should be approved and monitored by your health care provider. See disclaimer for more!