Depression is a menace millions of women and men have to cope with.
This can happen to people due to a number of factors.
Stress, trauma and insecurity often lead to a feeling of depression in people from various
age groups.
To alleviate this menace, you can resort to various measures nowadays.
From taking a small vacation to trying medication, the remedies are plentiful.
Some people also resort to yoga.
However, study findings indicate making a change to your diet can be helpful in this regard.
Eating walnuts in particular can help you stave off depression.
Why Eat Walnuts to Fight Depression?
Walnuts are among the healthiest nuts you can have in your diet.
They are laden with nutrients like vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
These help your body develop strong immunity.
These nuts also contain Omega 3 fatty acids.
It has been found to be good for losing weight and keeping cholesterol in blood within limits.
A number of studies have shown eating walnuts help secrete pleasure inducing chemicals
in the human brain.
This can eventually boost your mood.
This can be deemed as one of the natural depression remedies.
Why Walnuts Over Others?
While all nuts are more or less are rich in nutrients and natural compounds that are
good for the human body, walnuts play a key role in helping us battle depression,
according to study revelations.
The omega-3 fatty acids found in abundance in walnuts play a key role in helping kids
get over the impact of ADHD to a great extent.
In fact, the quality of this fatty acid in walnuts is said to be better than that found in
certain fish types.
“While all nuts are more or less are rich
in nutrients and natural compounds that
are good for the human body, walnuts play
a key role in helping us battle depression.”
You do not need to guzzle a lot of walnuts to fight depression as such!
Even if you eat a quarter cup per day of fresh walnuts that can be good enough.
It helps to hike secretion of the hormones serotonin and melatonin.
These are known as mood boosting hormones.
People with depression and related conditions have reduced levels of these hormones
in the body and a surge in the amount can be helpful for them.
Walnuts are also replete with high level of antioxidants.
Taking in foods rich in antioxidants helps your brain battle oxidative stress.
This organ in the human body gets subjected to stress leading to anxiety, depression
and related feelings at times.
Walnut consumption can be beneficial for their capacity to overcome oxidative stress
and boost mood.
“Instead of trying medication and
other measures to get good sleep,
try chewing some walnuts.”
Depression also leads to sleep deprivation in a lot of women and men.
Rather than trying medication and other measures to get good sleep, you may try
chewing some walnuts!
Eating walnuts can boost melatonin levels in your body significantly.
This can induce sleep better in people suffering from sleep deprivation.
Eating Walnuts Properly
The benefits of walnuts for health and depression fighting notwithstanding–you should
ensure that you eat these nuts in moderation.
Eating walnuts in excess amount may lead to certain health complications and can be
counterproductive for those on a weight loss mission.
Do you eat walnuts on a regular basis?
Did you know that eating walnuts can help with depression, mood and sleep?
Share your thoughts and comments with us.
I have walnuts almost every day. My weight has sadly not improved but my mood has 🙂
I am so happy to read that you are in a good mood. That means a lot!
I have started adding nuts to my salad I didn’t realise it could help my depression – thank you for sharing this advice with Pin Worthy Wednesday Deborah
Hi Deborah – This is interesting – I had not heard of walnuts being beneficial for depression. Thanks so much for linking up with the Let’s Get Real party.
This is absolutely fascinating!! Just love to learn about natural remedies like this. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂 We will be featuring your post tonight! Have a wonderful evening!
This was a great read, Deborah. Thank you for sharing. I have suffered from depression in the past and have been feeling it creep back up again, I will try eating more walnuts to hopefully help with this.
Hi Kimmy,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. It is amazing how helpful certain foods can be. I just have to remember to eat them all. I often forget to eat my walnuts some days. I have to make it easier to include all of the nutrients I need to eat each day!
I was just searching for depression relief and I must say you have described everything with ease. Thanks for the info, Deborah.