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This morning, since the holiday season is just upon us, we have titled this show,

Fighting Holiday Depression with Food.

This is a very important topic for any time of the year, but particularly during the holiday season.

So we want to help you understand how you can use food and nutrition to beat your holiday depression and winter blues.

We will share some fundamental nutrition information that you can use to either avoid getting depression or

use it to relieve symptoms of depression or the winter blues.

I wonder how many of our listeners know that their food choices and diet not only affects

their physical appearance, their energy, their intellectual and creative abilities, but also their

food choices and diet affect their mental health and their feeling of well-being.

Today we will share how your food choices affect how well you handle that extra stress

the holiday season brings.

And we will also share why your brain needs adequate levels of vitamin D to avoid the winter blues

and what an adequate amount of vitamin D is.

So you can really understand what you need.

We will also share the nutritional secret of how to eat to make

your brain chemicals, especially the neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin,

which are all essential for this time of year. And if you're deficient in acetylcholine,

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