How Eating A Healthy Diet Can Ease Anxiety Attacks and How Panic Away Can Help
Making a conscious choice to eat healthier can reduce or ease the anxiety or panic attacks that inflict you.
Anxiety sufferers are usually deficient in vitamins and minerals such as the B-complex vitamins and magnesium.
B-Complex: Help the nervous system to function properly and help to bring energy to people who are constantly stressed.
Magnesium: Helps muscles to relax and maintenance of the heart muscle.
Reach for a healthy meal or snack instead of your favorite ‘comfort’ foods that only comfort you temporarily, it will help to reduce stress, give you more energy and can even keep your mood and emotions more stable.
Reduce or eliminate refined products or anything white like white bread, white rice, white pasta or white sugar these will leave you sluggish afterward and can contribute to mood swings.
Limit your caffeinated beverages. Consume in moderation, considered as a mild stimulant it affects the nervous system by increasing your heart rate. Also a diuretic, it can increase water loss through urination. Healthier alternatives would be water, herbal tea, milk or natural fruit juice.
So eat foods that give you a boost!
What Do I Eat?
- Add spinach, turkey and greens to your diet. These foods contain tryptophan which helps to regulate your appetite and can improve your sleep at night.
- Eat yogurt. Yogurt contains B-12 which can help in producing healthy nerve cells.
- Eating fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can boost the body’s stores of vitamins and minerals that are depleted by prolonged stress.
- Salmon or chicken. Optimal amounts of niacin (B-3) which is needed for overall energy production.
- Skip the trans-fats. These are all bad for your heart so if it says “hydrogenated“ or “modified“ stay away.
- Munch on celery. Celery contains active compounds called phthalides, which can help relax the muscles around arteries and allow those vessels to dilate. With more space inside the arteries, this can reduce blood pressure.
- Incorporate beans to your diet. Whether lentils, soybeans, navy or pinto they contain optimal amounts of magnesium that aids in muscle relaxation.
- Chocolate, certainly last but not least. Now we’re talking this isn`t just any kind of chocolate though it needs to be dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is rick in magnesium which so many people are deficient in. Look for the highest percentage of cocoa.
- Nuts or seeds. Particularly almonds and pumpkin seeds they are rich in vitamin B12 and zinc which helps to boost your mood.
- Foods high in fiber, such as brown rice, brown bread, whole wheat pasta and low in salt.
Don’t be discouraged if you don’t see results overnight, it takes time, it may be even a couple of weeks before you feel any changes. Being a former anxiety sufferer for over a decade when I adopted new dietary changes my whole body and mind felt healthier and stronger.
Learn more natural techniques to stop your anxiety or panic attacks with Panic Away. Barry Joe McDonagh was a long time anxiety sufferer himself and his One Move Technique has helped thousands of people conquer their anxiety permanently.