Have you ever changed your diet? Such as you stopped eating certain foods or started eating other kinds? Did you notice a positive change? Did you experience any push back from others who didn't understand? Share your experiences.
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A google search pulls up a plethora of information on diet affecting moods.
In this "new normal" covid plagued world, many people have changed their moods. Whether from fear of disease or the foul economy that followed (people stay home, some work at home, others are unemployed). Many have sleep disorders.
I don't feel particularly stressed about covid, though I worry that it has devastated the world economy, made more homeless, and is used as a weapon to blame innocent (and sometimes very good) politicians for effects of covid that are completely out of their hands. I worry that recall elections (run by Republicans) are falsely blaming duely elected incumbants, and ousting them, in the middle of their terms, from their legally elected positions (it is treason or sedition, in my opinion).
Certain religions (quakers, Mormons, and the amish come to mind) have anti-industrial life, and anti-industrial diets. It is such a pity that tests of nuclear weapons at Area 51, Broom Lake, Nevada, drifted into Utah and caused cancer in such noble, hard working, and pure of body and mind kind of people (Mormons). Tainted by the world around them, they still are a shining example to the rest of us about pure foods, and simple life (horses might fart, but that kind of pollution doesn't seem to be as bad as smog, though some disagree).
Many vegetarians and vegans get a lot of "push-back" from those who insist on eating meat. Some wish to avoid cruelty, especially to the peaceful herbivores that almost never cause grief to other creatures. Cows are turned into meat when they reach 8 months old because it isn't profitable to grow them longer. The poor calves have hardly had time to live. Chickens are sometimes penned in cages that barely fit their bodies, and they spent their whole lives stock still in stultifying cages. Roosters are raised in low-ceiling cages to prevent them from crowing, but it must be awfully stressful for them. It is hard to justify a meat-eating (carnivorous or omnivorous) diet to a vegetarian, because they are right about cruelty.
I think that the peace of mind in not harming another creature gives some peace to the vegetarians.
But, aside from the issues of cruelty to animals and clean living, I think that foods can have beneficial (or harmful) effects. Tea seems calming. Coffee can wake people and make them more alert. Studies have shown that moderate amounts of coffee help (don't hurt) those with heart damage or heart arrythmia (contrary to past ideas).
Over half of the people are lactose intolerant, and many don't even know it. Some are severely so, with constant diarrhea, vomiting, farting, burping, and stomach aches. So, merely eliminating lactose from your diet might help. It is a milk sugar that cannot be digested without taking lactase pills for those whose genetics prohibits it. We inherit one of two genes from each parent regarding lactose intolerance. If both of our genes are intolerant, we are intolerant, though sometimes we don't show signs of it until we refrain for a length of time from digesting lactose. Some hard cheeses and yogurts are somewhat tolerable to "some" lactose intolerant people due to the ingestion of lactose by bacteria (such as sweet acidophilus in yogurt).
There is a symbiotic relationship of gut bacteria and humans. They help each other. In fact, it is very difficult to digest without gut bacteria. This is why it is so necessary to restore the intestinal flora with live culture yogurt.
I wanted to make my own yogurt, but sadly I can't have any. It would take a constant warm temperture to keep the milk from getting tainted by the wrong type of bacteria, so there must be a temperature regulated chamber to make yogurt.
Some buffets never get rid of the old food, but dump it into the new food. This is why you might encounter tainted foods.
Some fungus, such as ergot, can have hallucinatory effects, and some speculate that the puritans of Salem might have been high on ergot when they held witch trials and murdered the innocent.
They say that eating leafy green vegetables would make you think clearer.
Surely clogging one's arteries with cholesterol can't be good. Those who live with heart problems are depressed and some are suicidal. Most are inactive.