7 Common Food Ingredients that Ruin Your Good Mood

Food, it’s a necessary ingredient to life. Everyone knows it can affect your waistline but can it also affect how you think, act, and feel? So is something you’re eating causing your bad moods? Many foods or food additives can cause chaos on our nervous system, giving you a case of the blues, feeling overly tired, anxious, or irritable. Even very small amounts of these foods can completely hijack your good mood, leaving you feeling down and out. Check out this list of 7 food ingredients that are ruining your mood. 1. White Flour Everyone knows that white flour isn’t healthy, that’s nothing new. But did you know that avoiding white bread isn’t enough? Bleached white flour has found its way into other foods such as soups and salad dressings. It’s used as a thickening agent. Besides being nutritionally devoid of any substantive nutritional value, it causes you blood to make a high glucose content, so that even a small amount can cause mood swings and make you feel irritable with hunger, even though you might have just eaten. 2. Food dye FD&C Red 40 This is one of the most commonly used dyes in food. It has no other purpose than to make food or drink look more colorful, tricking you into thinking it’s tastier. This dye is inserted into almost everything you can imagine, fruit drinks, cereal, over the counter medications, sodas, and sports drinks. Studies have shown that this additive can cause hypersensitivity and/or ADHA in both adults and children. 3. Hydrogenated oils These are highly processed oils used as a preservative. Not only to extend the shelf life of products by days but sometimes by months. Hydrogenated oils create trans-fat in foods. Trans-fats are the most unhealthy type of fats there are as they increase cholesterol levels as your system works double time simply to digest it. Hydrogenated oils have been proved to cause weight gain as well. This additive can make you feel as if your brain is in a fog and can make you moody. 4. Aspartame Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used in those sugar free products you see in your supermarket. Although using less sugar is good, you might want to think again before using this toxic chemical. Aspartame has been linked to headaches, weight gain, and seizures. Aspartame has been proven to be a very toxic and dangerous chemical that you should avoid at all costs. 5. Food dye FD&C Yellow 5 Yellow 5 is yet another extremely common food dye found in cookies, sodas, cereals, breads, even ice cream, and gum. If your food or drink has an unnaturally bright, unnatural look to it, more than likely it contains this additive. Yellow number 5 has been proved to cause all types of health problems including asthma, nausea, and mood disorders such as anxiety or depression. 6. Monosodium glutamate This chemical, which goes by the abbreviation MSG, is used in many pre-packaged foods to improve flavor. It’s also used to extend the shelf life of these products, again, sometimes for months. MSG is generally found in potato chips, easy dinner mixes such as Hamburger Helper, many frozen meals, “ethnic” foods such as Chinese noodles and sauces, Mexican foods, seasoning such as seasoned salts, packaged nuts, and soups. Consuming even small amounts of MSG can lead to dizziness, nausea, weakness, and feelings of anxiety. Be extra cautious when reading labels as the FDA does not require MSG to be listed as an ingredient. Be sure your product states that it is “MSG Free.” 7. Sugar Sugar, it’s in almost every food imaginable. This includes chips, sauces, including tomato sauce and other canned vegetables, peanut butter, salad dressing, yogurt and fruit juice and fruit products, cereals, sodas, sports drinks, and energy bars. Sometimes sugar is hiding from you by being called different names such as: dextrose, fructose, corn syrup, sorbitol, xylitol, lactose, and sucrose. Eating foods that are high in sugar can contribute to many health issues such as diabetes, suppression of your immune system, thyroid dysfunction, hypoglycemia, depression, not to mention, obesity. Aim for no more than 12 teaspoons of sugar per day. //

7 Common Food Ingredients that Ruin Your Good Mood

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