Foods That Make You Happy, Foods That Make You Sad | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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Summary
Food can have a huge influence on your mood. Some foods can make you happy while others can often contribute to sadness and depression.
Discover the foods than can improve your mood and the ones to avoid that may bring you down when Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Topics Discussed
- How food influences mood
- The best diet for happiness and mental clarity
- Chocolate, serotonin, and happiness
- Foods that reduce depression
- Refined sugar and depression
- Leafy greens and improved mood
- Omega-3 fatty acids and mental health
- Vitamin deficiency and sadness
- Antioxidants and emotions
- Meat and mental health
- Green tea and happiness
- Spicy food and mood
- And more
Dr. Barnard is a multiple-time best-selling author whose latest work is The Power Foods Diet.
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. Let's talk about the big time happy foods. What would be at the top of your list Dr. Barnard? |
| 0:08.8 | It's a little hard to rate them on because they're vying for the top of the list. |
| 0:13.2 | But I'm going to say that the antioxidant-rich foods, |
| 0:16.0 | the berries which are loaded with anthocyanin, |
| 0:18.5 | you've heard me talk about that for weight loss. |
| 0:20.1 | Why do they cause weight loss? |
| 0:21.2 | Probably because they boost the metabolism and mood goes right along with it. |
| 0:24.8 | Now you'll hear me saying praises of blueberries but it doesn't have to be. |
| 0:28.0 | Anything in that category is going to be fine. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries. |
| 0:32.0 | Also when we're thinking about color |
| 0:34.6 | and we're thinking about the antioxidants |
| 0:36.4 | because that's where the anti-inflammatory potential |
| 0:39.4 | comes through that's gonna benefit the brain, |
| 0:41.5 | think about the orange ones. |
| 0:43.2 | Sweet potato, carrots, but don't forget the mangoes |
| 0:46.4 | and the papay is and the cannulips, |
| 0:48.0 | the ones that people tend to neglect. |
| 0:49.9 | So I'm gonna bring them in a big way to it. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, |
| 1:04.8 | raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:09.1 | High to the exam roomies listening in Peoria, Illinois, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Palermo, Italy. |
| 1:16.4 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
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