Did you know that these stress-causing foods can alter your mood?
Let’s be honest: We’ve all got that bag of chips in the back of the pantry, waiting to come out at the end of a bad day. The truth is that food can powerfully impact stress levels, mood, and our mental health.
While symptoms and triggers are distinctive to every person, studies have found several common stress-causing foods that can induce anxiety.
People soothe stress with nutrition, and the ones that most effectively trigger the reward centers in our brains are fatty, salty, and sweet. Eating high-calorie and high-fat foods when you’re stressed out has even been shown to slow down metabolism.
This double whammy can lead to an annual 11-pound weight gain. To keep this in check, let’s take a look at 7 stress-causing foods you should avoid at all costs.
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Plant based foods are the way to go to avoid all of these stressers.