Overcoming Winter Blues With A Plant-Based Diet
In this episode we discuss Overcoming Winter Blues with a plant-based diet. Also, we discuss other ways to help with overcoming your winter blues!
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD): also called winter depression, winter blues, summer depression, and seasonal depression, is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder)
Overcoming Winter Blues Tips!
- Try to Eat Healthier Plant-Based Foods
- Bananas
- Nuts & Seeds
- Tropical Fruits
- Starchy Foods (Potatoes, Rice, Breads, Grains, etc.)
- Raw Chocolate
- Berries
- Leafy Greens
- Spices (Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Cayenne, etc.)
- Superfoods
- S.A.D (Seasonal Affective Disorder) Light! 10,000 LUX
- Air Diffuser
- Exercise!
- Listen to uplifting music
- Travel somewhere warm 😀
- Get Social!
- Keep Moving
- Coffee
Like this episode? You might also like: EP17 – PLANT-BASED OVER THE HOLIDAYS WITH ALISON COLE
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