Snacking between meals, rather than satisfy a sense of hunger, are used to calm the desire for something good, because sometimes the food becomes a refuge, filling the empty feeling and gives a “cuddle” those who give it some goodies definitely a pleasant feeling, but ephemeral, which leaves excess kilos to be disposed of and further stress to deal with. Resist snacks between meals not impossible, and for this was an emotional created a diet that can calm the nervous hunger.

Often, those who suffer from hunger emotional eating to relax, and food becomes a tool of comfort, according to experts, in this case is useful to keep a diary of emotions, or write in a notebook the time and the list of foods that are consumed during the day, adding events and emotions that trigger the urge to eat. This tool is useful to try to understand themselves and to correct the most common nutritional mistakes.

Nervous or emotional hunger has a biochemical explanation: under stress, your body produces norepinephrine, a substance that stimulates the appetite, just to keep it at bay, diet, emotional tries to stabilize mood, while maintaining balanced levels certain substances in the blood. But not only to regain their emotional balance you need to restore a lifestyle that is based on the normal sequence of sleep and wakefulness, and physical activity in order to produce endorphins, natural substances that can improve mood and combat stress.

One of the strengths of emotional diet is to consume foods that can increase levels of serotonin, or the “happiness hormone”, in the blood, and then fruit, vegetables, but also nuts and peanut butter, and then carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and cereals, especially in full and without excessive condiments. Start of the rice, especially in carnaroli and basmati varieties, because giving a prolonged feeling of satiety, and to soups and vegetable soups.

As for main courses, it is recommended the fish in abundance, white meat, fresh cheese and yogurt; it is preferable to consume red meat only once a week. The diet also exploits the emotional properties of many herbs, proposals in the form of herbal teas soothing and relaxing, such as rhodiola rosea, passion flower and hawthorn.

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