New research shows that brain foods are as an essential as your prescription when it comes to battling depression. This cements the old adage "you are what you eat" as eating the right foods can help cure anxiety.
The research and facts about proper diet and depression were presented at the 2016 Annual meeting of the American Pediatrics Association. It pointed that people getting enough of these nutrients can help the brain from getting unstable. This is also to raise awareness that there's a powerful prevention from a possible mental condition and may help ease depression, according to food and wine.
Healthy food doesn't just help us to be physically fit but also has a great impact on our mental power. Dr. Drew Ramsey, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and his colleagues believe these healthy options can help in the treatment and even prevention of depression or possible mental illness.
"The data are very clear that there's a powerful prevention signal when we help our patients eat better," Ramsey was quoted as saying in his speech. Both plant and animal based nutrients are 'brain foods'. The long list of food scale also includes omega 3 fatty acids, magnesium, calcium, fiber and vitamins B1, B9, B12, D, and E.
Animal proteins, fatty fish like wild salmon and tuna specifically seafood scores high on their research of brain food scale, especially, bivalves like oysters, clams and mussels. There's a mix variety of meat like turkey too. Leafy green vegetables are always present on any list for health, as cited in Everyday Health.
Depression is rated by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of disease burden amongst parents and their children. It affects individuals, families and friends both physically and mentally that would commonly go undetected or even misunderstood by loved ones.
But then, we are given a wide range of foods to choose from the 'brain food' scale. Thus, giving us hope to make ourselves and everyone we care about happy eaters on every meal and most of the day.
