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Healthy Snacks for Depression Anxiety
Eating healthy snacks is an important part of the Depression Anxiety Diet Recovery Plan. Snacking in between meals keeps your blood sugar levels constant.
Sugar is not bad. Your body and brain needs sugar for energy to properly function. However, either too much sugar in your blood, or not enough sugar in your blood can cause depression anxiety symptoms. The sugar spikes and crashes from refined sugar, sweeteners, white flour, and more, messes up your HPA axis homeostasis, where your nervous system and hormonal system meets, and can lead depression anxiety.
Learn More: How Sugar Causes Depression Anxiety
The Depression Anxiety Diet eliminates all refined sugars, and restricts the amount of sugar derived from carbohydrates, so healthy snacking in between meals is needed to maintain your blood sugar levels. You do not want to go hungry.
Unfortunately, most commercially available packaged and processed snacks, are extremely unhealthy. Prepared snacks are usually high in inflammatory ingredients such as gluten, refined sugar or high fructose corn syrups, vegetable oils, salt, lactose, additives, GMO’s and preservatives.
Learn More: How GMO Food Causes Depression Anxiety
Fortunately, there are healthy snacks you can eat while on the depression anxiety diet, which not only help maintain your blood sugar levels, but also contain ingredients which help your recovery.
The healthy snacks you can eat while on the Depression Anxiety Diet are specific fruits, nuts, and berries, which are high in anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant compounds. Not all fruits, nuts, and berries are healthy however, many can cause inflammation and worsen your condition, so it is important to eat the right fruits, nuts and berries as a snack.
List of Best Healthy Fruits, Nuts, and Berry Snacks for the Depression Anxiety Diet
Apples and Pears
Both apples and pears have a low glycemic index (low sugar), contain fiber, and a lot of water.
Walnuts, Brazil Nuts, Macadamia Nuts
Walnuts are the number one nut for depression anxiety recovery. Walnuts are cheap, delicious, and contain anti-inflammatory omega 3, as well as many other anti-oxidant compounds.
Brazil nuts are the ultimate source of selenium, a mineral required for proper brain functioning, which is often lacking in individuals with depression anxiety.
Macadamia nuts are an expensive but healthy nut containing falvenoids, omega 3, and anti-oxidants.
Berries
Almost any berry is acceptable on the Depression Anxiety Diet, including super sweet strawberries, but some berries are better than others. Goji Berries, Goldenberries, and Mulberries stand out for their high vitamin c, fiber, and anti-oxidant content.
The snack photo at the top of the page is of an organic anti-oxidant mix, available from Nuts.com for $12.99 per pound, containing Brazil nuts, goldenberries, goji berries, mulberries, and cacao nibs.
Make sure whatever fruit, nut, or berry you choose that it is organic and does not contain any additives or preservatives. Pesticides and herbicides found on non-organic fruits, nuts, and berries, as well as preservatives contained in packaging, can damage your gut and literally open the door to depression anxiety.
Learn More: Gut Brain Connection and Depression Anxiety
If you have an existing gut condition such as IBS, celiac, candida, or leaky gut, which is quite common if you have depression anxiety, you want to avoid or minimize fruits, nuts, and berries, for the first couple of weeks while you are on the Depression Anxiety Detox Diet. However, if you do feel yourself getting hungry in between meals, by all means eat a healthy snack to avoid your blood sugar levels from crashing.
If you have depression anxiety, learn more about our natural depression anxiety alternative, and get started with our step by step Guide to Depression Anxiety Recovery.
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