It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Cavist.

Each week, Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned to hear practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition.

Dishing up nutrition is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

Slow down, you move too fast.

You got to make the morning last just kicking down the cobblestones

looking for fun and feeling groovy welcome to dishing up nutrition i'm darling kivis licensed

nutritionist and i thank each of you for listening today.

For this next hour, I want to bring to you an awareness of a new way or a new approach to thinking about low moods, depression, anxiety, addiction, compulsive eating.

You know, those obsessive focus on your body, body you know the obsessive focus on body image low self-esteem and even anger for many of you you are experience if you are experiencing

any of these brain problems you immediately consider finding a good psychologist to talk over your past or current stressors.

You know, we believe that there is much more to the treatment of low moods, anxiety, and

obsessive thoughts than talk therapy. Now, you might think, okay, well, if it isn't talk therapy,

maybe I need medication.

Well, maybe an antidepressant or an anti-anxiety medication to change my brain chemistry would be the answer for me.

Well, again, we believe that there is a better answer to most of these brain problems.

You might guess we're going to talk about foods to boost your moods, and we're

going to talk about nutrition, and even foods that you may need to eliminate to reduce stress

on your brain. So that's a kind of new thought for a lot of people. Foods, hmm, nutrition,

hmm, very interesting. And so joining me in this

great conversation today is our co-host, Wendy Kate's dancer. And you know Wendy is a registered

nurse. She's a nutrition counselor and educator. And Wendy, you know, you worked as a nurse

...