The mind and body are inextricably linked. There are virtually no exceptions where what you do to one does not have an impact on the other. In this article I will be looking at the impact of diet on social anxiety. The social anxiety diet is all about what you should and should not be eating in order to help put your mind in the best possible position to start recovery.
Everyone has heard of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, not everyone however has been given good advice on which of these should be consumed and in what quantity. I believe that we should all eat as close an approximation as possible to what our ancestors ate before the agricultural revolution. I say this because this is the way our bodies ate for millions of years, it is only in very recent times (the last 10,000 years or so) that our diets switched to include grains which is not enough time to adapt.
To start with lets look at protein. Protein is an essential building block for our bodies. If we didn't eat protein we would very quickly die. If we don't eat enough protein our bodies don't have the building blocks they need in order to build and repair not only our muscle tissue but also a lot of the other tissues in the body as well. Protein should be obtained from sources like organic free range grass fed animals. This is the healthiest for us and contains large amounts of the essential fatty acid omega 3. In animals that have been grain fed there is a much higher ratio of omega 6 to omega 3. While omega 6 is essential you ideally want a 2:1 ratio of 3:6 which grain fed meat will not give you. One side effect of omega 6 is that it causes harmful inflammation in the body. Aim to eat 1 gram of protein per pound of your lean body weight.
Fats, especially saturated fats, are extremely misunderstood and that all started with a study done in the 1950's by a scientist called Ancel Keys. He set out to try and prove a correlation between saturated fat and heart disease. The study is called "the 7 countries study" and indeed it does show a correlation, however in order to prove the correlation Ancel had to cherry pick the 7 countries he knew would prove him right out of the 22 countries he studied. All the other countries showed no correlation. Saturated fats (like those found in lard, dripping, butter, and ghee) should account for 60%+ of your daily calories and can be consumed in any amount. "Fat free" and "low fat" are very heart unhealthy!
Carbohydrates occur in any diet that is low fat. Carbohydrate is the only macro-nutrient that has only a single function within the body which is to give energy (fats and proteins both form building blocks and give energy). Carbohydrates regardless of what you may have heard are actually very bad for your health. Sugar is toxic (there is around 1 teaspoon of glucose in the 8 pints of blood you have), carbohydrates are sugars joined together in a long "chain", when they break down in your digestive system they break down back into the simple sugars found in any sugar covered sweet. Carbohydrates cause instability of the chemicals in your brain, which is exactly what you don't want if you're trying to cure social anxiety.
In the social anxiety diet you should look at getting as much nutrition from whole natural organic foods as possible. Try to eliminate grains from your diet as they are full of carbohydrates and going back to my first point, not only cause damage to the body but also to the mind as well.
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