Foods that help your sleep AND mental health
This saying doesn't apply only when talking about how having too many tangerines can make one's skin orangey. It also prefaces how what we eat besets our everyday life. What you eat can make you cheery, or anxious, or glazed (take intoxicants for example). Because our food really does nourish us.
Nourish Verb
Nour-ish | \ nar-ish
1. Provide with substances necessary for growth, health and good condition,
2. Keep (a feeling or belief) in one's mind, typically for a long time,
3. Bring up,
4. Maintain. (Google & Meriam Webster)
So, what we eat doesn't only provide us nutritions, but it also affects how we feel and the state of our mind. It brings us up as a whole. Our body's systems are interlinked with what we feed ourselves as they're interlinked with one another. That's why, our regular food can be troubling important processes (e.g. Sleep) or our long-term moods. Or favoring 'em. We can take coffee for example, it's likely to give us sleeping problems with added anxiety; while it has its own benefits, too.
Therefore, some foods help us sleep better and some help us feel better. And thankfully, some do both! So finally, I'm bringing you all today, a list of foods that are good for our sleep and mental health. So let's dive in!
Almond
Banana
Blackberry
Blueberry
Beetroot
Cherry
Chia seed(s)
Cheese
Chickpea
Corn
Dark chocolate
Egg
Flaxseed
Grape
Grapefruit
Herring
Honey
Kale
Lettuce
Mango
Mackerel
Mussle(s)
Milk (warm)
Olive (& oil)
Orange
Prawn
Pomegranate
Pumpkin seed(s)
Poppy seed(s)
Quinoa
Rolled oats
Rice
Raspberry
Strawberry
Sunflower seed(s)
Spinach
Sesame (seeds & oil)
Sardine
Seaweed
Tomatoe
Tuna
Trout
Tart cherry
Turkey
Walnut
Watercress
Yogurt
And all these come with a bonus - healthier skin!
Key : Whole grains, nuts, fatty fishes, cold water seafood, low-fat dairies, greens, seeds, berries & cherries. (Source: Just trust me bro)
Thank you for taking the time to research and compile such an exhaustive list on this crucial subject for our health.
It's amazing that these contribute to emotional wellbeing as well.
Thank you again.
All the best !
Marcelo.
@cheerfulIceCream
Hey hey Cream, so this post is great, wonderful topic and interesting information ! Thanks for collecting the information from different sources and bringing it to us here in a simplified form ❤ but but but , can I just appreciate the colour palette please?! I meannn the information is great and everything but the colours damnnn....so very appealing and just * worth soaking in * hehe ! 😍
Thankyou for this discussion! Gotta check in with the food I eat more often now 😄
I have the same reaction towards the color spectrum 😹😹
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
@kindLemonade
It was legit your idea to make it look like a directory shopping list. 😌
Lol Lem , *high fives* @kindLemonade
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou @kindLemonade
Ahah, that's nice to know. Btw the spectrum was supposed to be recurring rainbows but then I drove some other way nor sure why. 🤔🤣
Hahaha , whatever it now is , is super beautiful too 😆❤ @cheerfulIceCream
@cheerfulIceCream
Wow, this is such a great list of healthy food! Thanks for sharing! ❤️