http://positivetranceformations.com.au/blog/foods-and-moods/ Helpful foods include oily fish, bananas, whole grains, dark (70% cocoa solids) chocolate, molasses and Brazil nuts, with chocolate and bananas particularly stimulating the body to produce feel-good hormones.

1. Foods and Moods
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2. Depression is a very complex
issue and the condition can have a
range of causes.

3. The most obvious of these causes
is emotional problems and
negative beliefs.

4. These emotional problems and the
negative beliefs need to be tackled
through counselling, and many
people turn to hypnotherapy to
find a solution as well.

5. But often, there’s more to
depression than just going
through a tough time.

6. We all know people who have
gone through experiences that
would have plunged other folk into
depression or some other
problem. But these people just
seem to bounce back.

7. It could be that these people have
more hope and optimism and a
series of positive beliefs that help
them cope with tough times. Or it
could be another factor.

8. When considering the causes of
depression, the mind/body link
should never be ignored.

9. Scientists everywhere have
accepted the idea of SAD
(seasonal affective disorder),
where people who don’t get
enough sunlight have a greater
tendency to depression.

10. In Scandinavian countries in
particular, with their long, dark
winters, more cases of clinical
depression crop up in winter, only
to be alleviated when the sun
returns in spring and summer.

11. Now, this isn’t a problem in the
Gold Coast – people come here for
the sunshine, after all – but there
are other ways that things that
happen to the body affect the
state of the mind.

12. Diet, as you may have expected,
plays a part in depression,
although it may not be the only
factor.

13. It is highly likely that vitamin
deficiencies and what’s in your
food plays a role in a depressed
mood.

14. It probably isn’t the only factor –
again, we probably all know
people who eat all kinds of junk
and don’t have any problems with
depression and also know folk who
are very careful about what they
eat but still have problems with
depression and anxiety.

15. But the authorities say that diet
can help alleviate some of the
symptoms of depression and make
you feel better.

16. We all know that there are certain
foods that make you feel better
emotionally – everyone has
comfort foods.

17. The downside of traditional
comfort foods is that they are
often high in empty calories and
simple starches – and can leave
us with a weight loss problem,
especially if people turn to these
foods as a crutch when feeling
blue.

18. Often, these comfort foods are
foods from childhood or are treat
foods, and people turn to them in
order to recapture the feelings of
being loved and special that are
associated with these foods.

19. If this rings a bell with you, then
you might like to talk to your
counsellor or hypnotherapist as
part of a hypnosis session before
it gets out of control.

20. But there are things that you can
eat that really can make you feel
better because of the way that
they interact with your hormones
and affect the chemicals in your
brain that affect moods.

21. And the good news is that many
of them are healthy for your body
as well as for your brain.

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