Thread by @aayurarogyam

Diet to reduce Anxiety :

-Prolonged Anxiety hinders your normal body and brain function - makes you more lethargic and reduces your reasoning capacity

Anxiety arises from depressive negative event, visuals / thoughts even news/ messages

It’s impact is silent but deep

- Drink enough water every two hours
- Avoid nerve stimulants like coffee, alcohol and tobacco
- Avoid refined sugar and Table salt (Alternate with Jaggery powder and non Iodized rock salt or Himalayan pink salt)

- Consume more gut friendly Pro biotic fermented foods like sour buttermilk, naturally fermented idli / dosa batter

- Include more green leafy vegetables as soup, Sabji and salad. Magnesium in these help greatly to manage the mood swings due to anxiety

-Reduce and limit your complex carbohydrates consumption like bread, polished rice, pasta

- Avoid spicy and deep fried fast food of any sort

- Lookout for a seed based or nut based healthy snacks like lotus seeds, peanuts, Kulith, local bean

- Include powdered omega 3 rich seeds as toppings or ingredients in your roti or salad

- Include all local vegetable on rotation basis in your diet

- Minimise your grain intake and maximise your vegetables intake

- Beet and carrot are great Anti depressant

-Make smoothies with mint and lemon juice
- Fresh lemonade with ginger or dry ginger
- Avocado dessert with cashews almonds and pumpkin seeds

Ideal diet should be
Breakfast
- Green or herbal tea (Hibiscus / mint/Sankapushpi)
- Salad with porridge
Meal
- Soup, green Salad, roti, dal, brown rice and fruit salad / juice
Snacks
- Poha /Unpolished Puffed rice /airfield nuts or seeds

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Dinner
- Roti + Dal
- Fruit salad / desert
- Lukewarm cow Milk with turmeric / cardamom / saffron